skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cleveland Oh. was the tool & die capitol of the world those jobs started to leave in the 80's and NAFTA and the Great Recession took the rest especially the small ones in Western Pa. As for Molex the Koch's bought them in 2013 but, I haven't followed where or what they have done with Molex. I have used Molex machines in production they were so well made. When I was a kid Cleveland made everything I remember the pride I felt seeing a dump truck the size of 2 houses ( Euc) roll out of the factory back then. It wasn't my fathers generation Silent (Korea) that sent those jobs out of the country it was the generation that followed them !
Or plugged in a USB cable.
Y Combinator's quantum computing 'spaceshot' scores $64M from A16Z, others
Why .NET Core Made C# Your Next Programming Language to Learn
Quite a few potentially:

http://imgur.com/a/ebvfk
Nice one. Out of coincidence I had your Indie Hackers interview open in another tab. This blog is really high quality with a lot of attention to design detail. Courtland does really good podcasts too. I was reluctant to sign up for yet another email list, but it's one of the few emails I really look forward to receiving every week. A really good resource. My only complaint is that the podcasts won't play on my Nexus. Need to download them, but that's no big deal. Would be really great if that was fixed though.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page
100-year-old San Francisco woman dies one month after losing eviction battle
I didn't notice k-mcgrady suggesting that we romanticize any other empire, either.
This link is more about the meaning of the quote rather than its attribution:

http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2006/10/the-definition...

That saying has always grated on me as fundamentally wrong, and that link provides some insight into it.
https://www.chromeexperiments.com
I would not use SSL. Why spend time learning and fiddling with something that is so flawed? If I was serious about encrypting traffic I would use CurveCP. SSL is simply a nuisance I tolerate to read the www. Every minute I spend learning about it is wasted time... because I could be spending that time learning about something better, like CurveCP. The spread of SNI has just made SSL even more annoying.
Lead exposure in childhood linked to lower IQ, lower status jobs, as adults
Does the model 3 have sufficient room for a rear facing car seat? One of my main concerns
Man, every time I get annoyed by something in Chicago, New York steps in to make me feel better.

What does the guy at the front care anyways? Do the union guys pass him a $50 every time they cajole somebody in to using the freight elevator for something stupid?

I probably would have just waited till the cop left, went to the nearest shipping store, bought a box, put 5 bucks in postage on it, and addressed it to myself. Now they can't open it without exigent circumstances or a warrant.

I'm not a lawyer, so don't take this as legal advice or anything, but it's probably the next best thing to giving them the finger.
They're the ones who brand new congress needs to be courting
Sell 90% of it. Or some other structure where you give up ownership and control, but retain some residual.

You'll have to reduce your asking price quite a bit (so maybe you end up with $450k vs $600k), but I'm guessing that won't really matter in the grand scheme.

As for what's next, you need to figure that out anyway. It doesn't sound like your business is going to continue forever without some new passion, so this gives you 2-3 years of runway to figure out what gets YOU excited.

If you choose your buyer well, maybe you'll get a huge recurring payout over time. Or maybe you'll get nothing. But hey, without passion your business is on its way to zero anyway, so there's no real loss there.
ODBC is over 20 years old.

I was using ODBC from MS Access to query Oracle databases in the early 90s - both ODBC and (preferably) pass-through queries.
The entire system included then generating (recursive) reports in Access, passing the data to Excel to integrate with other data and input, opening and updating a Powerpoint file with linked tables, saving the PPT and returning to Excel for the next in the series.

All driven by VBA. All in 1995, maybe 1994 too.

I had to restart Windows after each run of 20 or so, and had two computers as one was always tied up running jobs. Kludgy but at least I wan't writing COBOL.

Here is some 1994 PR: http://archives.cpajournal.com/old/16531700.htm
If you have a Mac you should try Clozure Common Lisp (http://ccl.clozure.com). It has an integrated IDE so you don't have to futz with emacs and slime.

Also, this library smooths over some of CL's rough edges:

https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib
The other common measurement of 0->60 acceleration and not top speed. The proper description would be "quickest production sedan" instead of "fastest production sedan" but I digress.
I really doubt that many businesses would make it to $5M sitting in the bank without ever allowing anyone to know who they are - or slipping up and getting caught. I can't think of who would spend money with such a business if there were any alternative, in countries with well-developed consumer protection systems.
And hence the British slavery is acceptable.
Interesting. I wonder if the Clinton campaign tried to get too clever against Bernie by dividing his support -- tell Blacks he's not committed to civil rights, tell Hispanics he's anti-immigration, tell women his supporters are all "Bernie Bros." This way, it would be hard for him to catch fire outside of white males, making the math hard for him. She may have won the battle but lost the war: the message that she's not the candidate for the white working class resonated too well, and she didn't do enough to pivot back to the Rust Belt when it mattered -- giving Trump an opening to "pick the lock" on the great Democratic firewall.
Car companies are selling bricks. In large part because of the used car market no company makes reliable and cheap because the cost conscious don't buy new cars.

Further, the dealer model forces high markups, heavy advertising, etc to attract the kind of people that buy new cars.
Philly Musuem of Art Hackathon (onsite or Remote)
Greenland is melting
I'm currently closing a buisness in germany. It takes about 40hours of work plus 400€ for notary etc. To close a f*cking buisness which had no cashflow for the last 2 years.
> These regulations were only voted on late in 2016 and never went into effect. To do the regulations, the FCC reclassified the internet as basically ye olde telephone system

You are conflating two different orders; the reclassification was part of the 2015 open internet order (and was expressly laid out as a legal option in the court decision striking down the 2010 open internet order), not the 2016 privacy order at issue here.

> They did a swipe at the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC.

The FTC has no authority over even the non-telephone operations of the telephone companies who are many of the major ISPs.
Thanks, really appreciate your detailed response.

Bumming around Upwork right now myself after quitting a programming job couple of months back. Got to say I enjoy being able to set expectations and over-deliver, breath of fresh air after years working with team leads and managers. Need to start landing more gigs though.
Try the gitbook editor by https://www.gitbook.com/, then export as pdf.

You can write in markdown or asciidoc, revision content in git/github, export to pdf or ebook, and develop your layout with a custom theme (https://toolchain.gitbook.com/themes/).

Asciidoc + custom theme is probably feature-rich enough for you to accomplish whatever content organization + layout you want.

Gitbook has some kind of subscription model if you use their site, but the editor is free I believe.
Hi Drup,

The intent of Immutable-re is to provide a complete set of persistent immutable collections that complement the standard library and core. The initial release is limited to common Map, Set, and Vector types, but we have intent to add additional collections such as BiMaps, Multisets, and Multimaps. There is of course some overlap with the stdlib collections (SortedSet vs. OCaml Set, SortedMap vs. OCaml Map) but even in these cases, the Immutable-re implementations have slightly different characteristics from their stdlib counterparts, which provide added value.

The public API is designed to be very Reason like, and familiar to web developers with experience in JavaScript, Java and C#, hence the naming conventions and camlCase. I've also considered adding an OCaml compatibility layer, which provides a more familiar API for OCaml developers. While the public API itself is heavily dependent upon signature indirection, these signatures are purely for documentation and not heavily depended upon within the implementation, which means the OCaml compat API may not include them at all.

Regarding the choice of APIs for sequences, the current Sequence type is intentionally opaque and is internally designed to be compatible with the proposed standard OCaml Sequence (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/1002). If/when, that PR lands, we will switch our internal implementation to be compatible with OCaml's while maintaining the same public API.

Finally you are completely correct regarding documentation generation. Unfortunately refmt does not currently support outputting OCaml mli files including comments. This left me with the choice of hand rolling docs as I did or shipping ocamldocs lacking any comments explaining the types and functions. I chose the former.

Thanks for your feedback.
Small ISPs Oppose Congress's Move to Abolish Privacy Protections
Chinese people generally don't like the usage of Japanese terms when referencing their language, mostly due to WWII and historical reasons.

Usage of Chinese characters in Japanese language - kanji

Usage of Chinese characters in Chinese language - hanzi
Democratic Senators need to be careful what they filibuster. Absurdly, it only takes a majority vote for the Senate to change the rules to disallow filibusters.

Then again, the vote to change the rules to disallow filibusters could itself be filibustered.

But, the Senate, despite all that, could (on motion) declare the filibuster unconstitutional, and only require a simple majority vote to affirm it.

Man, our Congress is so broken.

Source: 2nd paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...
Can anyone explain why, when this went through the Senate, it wasn't filibustered? I was under the impression that almost all controversial legislation had to pass the filibuster threshold, and since Democrats were united in opposition against it, I would have expected them to filibuster this. Was there some loophole preventing them from doing so, or did they not consider it important enough to filibuster?
This is more of a pitch document than a design document.
Why is this comment down-voted? It is absolute truth. British empire was racist, made Indians slave, and was imperialist murderous entity. Good riddance to it. I hate that India was ever colonized by Britishers. They brutalized the population and plundered the wealth.
I feel like that's chasing symptoms though. If you push a bunch of women into tech and women aren't treated well in tech, you haven't solved the problem of women being treated poorly in tech, instead you've made more people be treated poorly.
The main proposal (https://crbug.com/629964) doesn't remove the old features; it just makes them per-tab, as they always should have been. This is IMO better in essentially all respects. Your code will keep working.
Thank you for the link to c-cube/containers, didn't know about it, looks interesting!

The above comment is relevant from the OCaml language ecosystem perspective. Although I think that possible segmentation is not a huge problem if it means wider adoption of the language. Especially considering that Reason maintains full compatibility with OCaml.
Also, the ASDF information is somewhat dated. It will work, but the central-registry has been deprecated for years. I'm not even sure how it might work on windows.

If you're recommending quicklisp, there's the local-projects approach, otherwise there's $HOME/common-lisp/
England and Scotland (as well as Wales and Northern Ireland) are very clearly a partnership. There is significant imbalance therein, but that doesn't render it nonexistent.

And the UK is very much flapping about with little idea of what it is doing and why. Immigration does seem to be the biggest concern - but there is little evidence as to why it is the biggest concern.

If anything, I'd suggest that Brexit is the result of the same phenomenon that elected Trump - a general dissatisfaction with the state of governance and a lack of options with which to deal with it. People are understandably frustrated and want to effect some change; it's easy to believe promises made to this effect.
The actual rule[0] as recorded in the Federal Register says: "The notice and choice rules we adopt today will become effective the later of (1) PRA approval[1], or (2) twelve months after the Commission publishes a summary of the Order in the Federal Register[2]."

So, given that it was published on 2 December 2016[2], the earliest it could possibly have taken effect is December 2 or even 4 (December 2 is a Saturday)

[0] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-16-148A1.p... (Item #312. Page 132 of 219 of the PDF. Yes, it's a huge file.)

[1] "PRA approval, as defined herein, is not complete until the Commission publishes notice of OMB approval in the Federal Register", so it was also conditional on approval by the Office of Management and Budget. AFAIK, that never happened, either.

[2] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-12-02/pdf/2016-28006.p...
Based on the article it sounds like the employees themselves might have come up with those names.

Terms like this are tricky because it depends a lot on who came up with it. If a group of Jewish employees start calling themselves "Jewbers," that's really different from if management or HR at Uber did it.
Collecting DNA from Sex Workers to One Day Identify Their Bodies
Have you looked beyond the bay area? I was considering moving there to find different work. I am thinking it may have been fortunate I did not. Right now I am drowning in work (in the Tucson area).
Because the truth matters. You're reacting to this based on the politically spun narrative that was fed to you when you first encountered the issue. The truth is actually a fair bit more complex.

This is a case of a regulatory agency overstepping its bounds and seizing jurisdiction outside of the domain allowed for it by Congress. That's the language in which the bill is framed, the the way in which it has been discussed in the past weeks and months that is has gotten (minimal) coverage.

Then the issue got picked up and spun when somebody called attention to the fact that the FCC's regulations (which they were not authorized to make) were more consumer-friendly than the FTC's. That's true, and it's a real problem. But that does not mean that the answer is to sanction the FCC's power-grab here. The right thing to do is to pursue consumer regulatory protections _within the confines of the law_, which means either petitioning the FTC or new legislation.

Don't confuse concern over process with favoring the resulting outcomes.
The court decision (it was a court interpretation, not a particular executive action that led to the FTC's authority being removed) dates from August, 2016, and only applied to the 9th circuit. See https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/08/29/1... (The case was the FTC suing to prevent AT&T conducting data-throttling to customers who had bought unlimited data plans. AT&T claimed that the FTC no longer had jurisdiction, and the court agreed.

Given that circuit split, it's unlikely -- no matter how evil you imagine ISPs to be -- that they would start scooping up data and selling it immediately, and only in a narrow set of States. The FCC regulation was an attempt to restore an existing privacy situation, across the whole of the US market.

Again, it's extremely unlikely that with an impending privacy regulation being imposed, ISPs would proceed with monetising user browser histories for a short period of time before they were once again vulnerable to regulatory penalties for doing so.

If I may be less than oddly silent, I think we (EFF) didn't talk about this much because it seemed like various parts of the USG were (slowly) moving to fix a problem that came out of a court decision that could have gone either way.

You can read a little bit more about our work during the Obama administration (and before) on net neutrality here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/deep-dive-defense-neut... . One of the points we talked about during that administration, and this one, is the risk of FCC over-regulation, and regulatory capture. If you want to view these challenges in a public choice theory (ie generally Republican) model -- at the FCC, the risk is largely one of ISP dominance, as it is traditionally the telcos that stand to benefit from investing in moving the FCC to their position. In this case, you actually have Congress stepping into to push them even more that way. That's a problem under a Democratic or Republican administration, which is why I think you saw more Republicans move to oppose the repeal than Democrats support it.
If I had to make an overly broad generalization of the HN readership, people reading links here are more willing than the average person to read an article that disagrees with their preconceived stereotypes and worldview. Whereas mass market media (the magazine Inc, etc) is going in the opposite direction from that.
That's called NA.
Next time I'm back home in Rochester, I will visit Strong to see that document.
> I couldn't help but laugh at this part. He proved a classic theorem in statistics and then precision engineered the actual submission to be roundly ignored.

He simply did not care:

“I am used to being frequently ignored by scientists from [top-tier] German universities,” he wrote in an email. “I am not so talented for ‘networking’ and many contacts. I do not need these things for the quality of my life.”
Does installing Kite and clicking "I agree" on a legalese dialog count as explicitly allowing it?
The reality is more nuanced--the time to stop this legislation was by preventing it coming to vote in the senate. Typically the senate needs 60 votes to forcefully end debate[0], then merely majority to pass it. Once can disguise support for a bill by approving to end debate, then voting "Nay" given it will get the necessary 50 to be approved.

For JS 34 [1] Mitch McConnell (R, KY) limited debate to 10 minutes--I'm unclear from the transcript exactly how this was allowed. Richard Blumenthal (D, CT) offered resistance to limiting debate, and Kamala Harris (D, CA) and Patrick Leahy (D, VT) requested the role be called several times as a delaying tactic, but the limiting of debate went through.

Just prior to the vote, Brian Schatz (D, HI) offered some debate, but this is cosmetic given the known votes.

My read there is little to be gained by trying to legislate implementation power that has been ceded to the executive branch and the various agencies that are run by appointment, and therefore a costly filibuster and fight was not worth the time, effort and political mud.

[0] https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/577d2a5e-2b47-4045-95fa-a7639...

[1] https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2017/03/23/sen...
I think you have that backwards. A century ago people imagined flying cars but not smartphones. (See Albert Robida.)

Now, we would find flying cars "nearly magical" (myself included, having been recently amazed by modern vertical takeoff fighter jets) but apparently aren't impressed by smartphones (myself not included, even before having recently learned about semiconductor fabrication techniques).
My two cents....Patents are only worth what you can afford to defend them.

A product that is hard to reverse engineer is almost as good as a patent. And a product might be the quickest way to monetize any idea.
I think part of it is choice. You can legitimately choose to not use Facebook (even though admittedly for some people that's difficult due to network effects). Don't like Google's data collection policies? Use Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo. Don't like Netflix? Use HBO Now, Prime Video, Google Play, iTunes, Hulu, or buy a cable subscription.

However, most people in the US have a choice of only one or two ISPs, so there may not be an option to choose a company that doesn't sell your data.
and that's why bills like this pass.
Esc is handled automatically by the suggested replacement <dialog>, although only Chrome has implemented <dialog> so far.

With respect to Tab, doesn't that problem already exist in all other (non-dialog) web content? If a webpage's dialogs are accessible but everything else is broken, I feel like you're going to have a bad time regardless… Though I suppose that if you're not impaired and typically use the mouse to click buttons, but are used to using the keyboard for dialogs, this could be an annoyance.
This bill is under the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overturn rules enacted by the executive branch in the last 6 months. A joint resolution of disapproval under this act can't be filibustered.[1]

[1]https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43992.pdf
By accident.
You keep believing that, meanwhile in reality: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/7/11383392/self-driving-truck...
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You've probably seen Poll Everywhere before; PollEv enables presenters to build apps into slide decks and have audience members respond on their phone/laptop/SMS. The responses are displayed live, on the presenter's screen for everyone to see. PE is how new ideas are collected and communicated.

I think we're still the largest YC company by revenue to have never raised money after YC. This results in autonomy from fundraising milestones. Our customers include most of the Fortune 1000, and many universities. We're a team of 50.

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Check out this role:
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> Literally everything Elon Musk is doing has a strong element of trying to save the world.

Maybe. Or maybe he's just saying that to make money. If Elon Musk ends up being completely successful in all of his endeavors, he will be the world's richest person by far.

I suspect the truth is in the middle. He does want to change the world, but he's not willing to become poor (let's say a net worth of less than a million dollars) in the process.

I have no problem with people getting rich, especially if they've earned it. But I see Elon Musk as a salesman more than anything, and he's damn good at it. He has generated a cult following of people who believe he is doing everything possible to save the planet.

I am very skeptical that Elon Musk is half as great as he's made out to be on certain internet forums. I do not mean to say he is not an incredibly accomplished person, only to say that he does not live up to his self-generated hype.

Of course time will tell. I truly hope he is as great as people make him out to be. But I just don't see it. Hopefully he makes me into a believer by delivering on all his promises.
Well, so far curing and preventing illnesses is how we've extended life. There's room for an argument that, after we're done with all current major illnesses, we'll still have to solve the problem of debilitating aging to increase life further. But who knows if that's just pessimism.

Even if it's the case, we're also doing steady progress in the "make people more robust" department: orthopedics, transplants, pacemakers, better nutrition and supplements, better environmental health, ...

I guess it makes sense, because there's strong and continuous economic pressure to achieve those things, while there isn't a case (yet?) for getting to hibernation via baby steps.
Is it possible that you can prove literally anything there that you have said?