skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some knowledge of the Kenosha-Racine area. The publicized plant plan was never going to happen. It was a corrupt political move from the start. If Foxconn ever gets up to 13000 jobs in Wisconsin, with the majority as skilled manufacturing jobs filled by US persons, I will eat my hat. Raw.

The region simply does not have the type of workers that the plant would require, and it does not have anything there to attract the required workers. I'm not sure where all that money was supposed to go, but it for danged sure is not going to residents and businesses in Kenosha and Racine counties. As far as I know, the Republican Party officeholders in Wisconsin paid millions of the people's dollars to a foreign company, with promises of billions more, just for enough dubious promises to win one or two elections. (But that isn't stopping the party supporters that I know from making jobs claims, of course.)

Wisconsin might end up paying $200k to $1M for each job that actually gets created. I'm assuming that at about $8k direct tax revenue to the state for each employee, that's a payoff period of 25 to 125 years. I estimated about 7% tax on $60k income, and about 2% property tax on a $200k house. As far as I am aware, it's the worst deal ever made in the entire sordid history of "buying jobs". I wouldn't even consider moving back, unless one or more of the principals involved in making that deal faced criminal charges under chapter 946, subchapter II [0]. And the incoming new governor is already walking back campaign promises to act tough on the Foxconn deal.

To say they "screwed up" is an understatement. They screwed everyone in the whole state, for decades to come, and a good number of people are screwed right now, near the construction site. Eminent domain has been used, as with Kelo v. New London, for the exclusive benefit of a private party. Environmental concerns are being met with waivers instead of oversight. Nearby municipalities are making infrastructure investments that will likely turn into bankruptcy if Foxconn does not deliver. Foxconn only hired 178 of the 260 it was supposed to have hired in 2018, and their jobs target for this year is 2080. Remember: the promised number was 13000 jobs total.

[0] https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/946
>To me, "declarative" means focusing on just stating what you want the result to look like, not what operations need to be performed to obtain the result

And that's exactly what SQL does.

You specify what the result should be like "I want the result to have those two sets common elements, but only items where this column is larger than 10, and I want it grouped by these 2 columns and ordered by this over column", and now how to get to it (e.g. open these files, read those indexes, load a hash table with matches, iterate over them to find those where column > 10 etc).

GROUP BY x and WHERE X > 10, etc. are not "the operations performed to obtain the result", are high level descriptions of the result we want.

In fact in CS courses, SQL was one of the canonical examples of declarative programming (despite some nits to the premise, e.g. the ability to specify use of indexes etc).
A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intel Analysis [pdf]
Extended opinion on this by someone formerly Google and currently Cloudflare: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/issues/3036#issuec...

tl;dr is that Google is not supporting features in BoringSSL that Google doesn't need, but it's probably adequate for a lot of other projects.
I once worked at a walmart florida as an associate in the store getting paid crap hourly and they paid out my vacation time when I quit. I didn't even know that was a thing at that point in my life and was shocked by the extra money. This was in 2009.
Good question. The anti-dilution right is an adjustment to the investor's shares that occurs when the company does a down-round. The "broad-based" qualifier is a reference to the most company-friendly version of this because it requires the adjustment to take into account the scale of down-round in terms of dilution. For instance, if you closed a round at $20M post and then sold one share afterwards at $10M post, the adjustment would be negligible. There are other variations of anti-dilution adjustments that would ignore such considerations.

The anti-dilution adjustment is generally not something that applies to ordinary course dilution (like employee option grants).
How the Humble Home Water Heater Could Play a Big Role in Energy Storage
If you know how to secure a system, you could probably use owncloud or something like that too.
I don't see the problem in relaying the information to employees before the general public; if that's the intent that is.
Not sure why the downvotes. The reality is preferences are what poisons employee equity grants and is what ends up surprising people when startups end in any way other than spectacular success.

It’s unrealistic to do away with the common/preferred split, but protecting founders and perhaps some key employees as well as banning any kind of participating preferences or ratchets is a good place to start.
> Brand identity and trust used to be the foundation of businesses, and at some level (I'm not sure what level) it still is.

I think that was much more the case when the brand was the only brand. When the company lived or died by its chocolate, or single brand of appliances etc, even if the founder was gone, I think a lot of care was taken. Now a brand is commonly one of 10 or 30 in a portfolio, I don't think there's much care left.

When the parent has a dozen appliance brands you can play loose with the trust of any or all. Half the product may be little more than badge engineering. When there's dozens of food brands in the book, or the market leading brand gets bought, it's virtually certain they will be worse than they used to be. Often quite a lot. The perception of the brand might carry that for years.

BF is an odd one as it's trying to become a respectable news outlet, without letting go of the junk that made them. Now the perception has to go the other way, up. A much more difficult move.
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I sure hope they put their retirement investments into companies that pay their workers enough that society still functions. My bet would be on complaints about how milk is five times as expensive as it was back in the 80s instead.
Grider's react course is probably the best $12 i've ever spent
Not vouching for it per se... I just get triggered by something that I read and then it brings up all the seemingly related content I have ingested in the past...

I find this protein folding talk to be relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm-3kovWpNQ
Yeah, even if there _weren't_ (arguable, debatable) license incompatabilities, the ZFS team doesn't _want_ it to be just a linux submodule, they want it to be an independent thing that can be used with other OSs too, no? So it's really just part of the challenge of doing _that_, regardless of legal license issues. No?
Bandersnatch made me feel like I participated in an invasive data science project that I didn’t agree to.
Click bait. The article is clear... "political conditions play an outsize role. If it’s too authoritarian or too democratic the results are different."
thanks for the feedback.

this homepage is actually our 3rd and probably most abstract implementation.

1st, 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20161108025452/https://www.usefo...

2nd, 2017/2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20190107040431/https://fomo.com/

indeed, the numbers speak for themselves. over the last few weeks since deploying we saw lower signup conversion rates. but, we also have a few product launches forthcoming.

balancing between "be short and to the point" and sharing a vision is perhaps more art than science, and that's why we have so much art on our website.
http://mesh-spreadsheet.com/
Most places give you a paycheck trailing 2 weeks anyway. So you could always quit, but I'm not sure how many states would be required to send you your check.
This is the only one I remember that matches your description. I also liked "Simple made easy" by the same presenter but it's a completely different topic.
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HelloSign is one of the few utility SaaS products I use somewhat regularly that just nails it perfectly (and for free). Please don't screw this up, Dropbox.
And the remaining 20% will take 200% of the time? :P
> The problem is you don't know how you'll be judged if you do take the time off.

Exactly. It can also be incredibly inequitable. My previous job had a rule about not “abusing” the policy, but no one ever defined what abuse looked like.

One of the final straws for me was hearing from someone from another department that they had taken 5 weeks off over the last 12 months whereas I worked over several holiday weekends and spent time away from family due to the pressure of “needing” to get something done.
"Things I don't need or that are obsolete or that I won't use"

That's a silly way of thinking.

* Define the problem to solve

* Look at potential solutions

* Pick one that fits

* Make stuff

Before you pick a solution (Language, framework, tool) you need to define the problem, because all solutions are better at and for some things than others.

So, what problem are you trying to solve?
Pecorino Romano is my favorite cheese!
It’s flavor is more subtle than that of Parmaggiano Reggiano and it lacks some of the bitter notes which makes it excellent for Carbonara as you said. But I think it’s perfect for tomato based pasta sauces as well as most tomato’s are quite high in acidity save a few lesser known varieties like San Marzano for example. PR definitely has its place but I tend to only use it for foods that aren’t acidic themself. Broccoli or brussel sprouts and PR are a great combo for instance!
The way I read the headline is "the location data of my cellphone may get sold". I don't think that's what's happening.

I'm disappointed to see this style of reporting finding it's way to the Intercept. Maybe I remember it wrong, but when it started it didn't rely on clickbait titles.
If you have 4x the population, you plant 4x the grain. If you have drought, 4x the grain would succumb to drought.

You can plant extra grain in anticipation but you need to commit to buying possibly unneeded grain, which pushes up costs, which causes problems for the people you're trying to help.
Regular HN poster and Tarsnap proprietor: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva
> Kite doesn't support Linux yet, but coming very soon.

Quick suggestion - can you support a Docker based install ? Vscode now support remote debugging through docker, etc. I'm not sure about your architecture, but im wondering if this isnt something that you can do
There is a reason why we don’t have any VC investments in the media, or for that matter, in the content creation on the internet. The reason is because Google and FB monopolized search, advertising, and more importantly, surveillance of individuals. So, the website that caters clinical information to doctors competes with Candy Crush, because doctors get served relevant ads on games, etc.

In the early days of internet, we had plethora of new media networks. No more. The same with science websites, smart websites for children, hobby websites, etc etc. Big tech is killing content on the internet, and instead we have fake news controversies and privacy scandals.

This is very serious stuff for society and democracy and knowledge.

PS https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/28/tech-monopolies-are-killing-...

Edit. Think about it: Google and FB have 80% share of the ad market, and they actually don’t create the content. The rest 20% goes to all the publishers from the entire world.
We have not uploaded the codes yet. If you would like to see some of our projects, I shall send it to you via email.
This. You can't prevent the use of crypto because you can't attack any single point of failure.
Congrats John, Sarah and Ron!
Google Sheets is a combo. The sheet display is canvas, but a lot of interaction is DOM (and—notably—all text is initially stored in DOM, but then paged out for perf reasons as the above commenter mentions).

That said, X-Spreadsheet does also use DOM for some text interactions at least—seemingly much less so than Google from what I can initially/briefly see though.
So - build a monastry where free drugs are provided for simple work? Wait till the addicted get bored?
Conpared to many cities that we consider diverse (NYC, Amsterdam, London, etc), Singapore is by far more diverse, perhaps only second d to Dubai.

Their metro lines have announcements in 4 languages, and you can even get away without speaking English as a middleman langage. Majority of the people speak at least a little of other languages. It's always a mix of languages (Chinese, Malay/Indonesian, Tamil, Sinhalese, etc).

It still has to mix with the European culture though. There are far more Indian, Chinese, Indonesian, and Australian influence.
hey, the 11k figure is active websites. you can verify all this via our Open API: https://fomo.com/open

since a customer can have unlimited websites per plan, we actually have around 5,500-6,000 customers. many will add a personal site and a company site, or an ecommerce store and a blog.

yes, older customers have plans as low as $8-12 /month. good times.
We are still in process of setting up the SSL certificate. Meanwhile, try using http://draftss.com
I have a Shopify app that generates a little under $1K a month. I feel like if I put some dedicated effort into it, I could probably double that. Right now, I probably spend about 4 hours a week max on support.

I would discount all the people who say it cannot be done. There is a ton of opportunity out there if you are willing to do your research, take sensible risks and do the hard work to build and launch stuff. The trick (at least for me) is transitioning from the side-project to the fully self sustaining stage. There is a messy middle where the investment required (in terms of time and money) imposes a much higher risk.
That [1] was what I remembered. They were preparing for C++. But obviously it didn't get as far as actually including C++ code in the mainline kernel. Maybe it was a preparation in order to allow experimenting with C++ in the kernel.
My reading is that this includes a pre-money option pool (aka the "option pool shuffle": http://venturehacks.com/articles/option-pool-shuffle), which while standard feels dirty.

Any thoughts on this?
That does seem like a distinction that the software industry needs to work out. The software developer differences between a cook, a sous chef, and a chef, or Nurse versus an RN versus a Doctor, or a Dental Hygienist versus a DMD, or a paralegal versus a Lawyer.
I generally separate operands, but in dense math expressions it's not always the best for readability.

x = (-b + sqrt(b**2 + 4*a*c) / (2*a)

x = (- b + sqrt(b ** 2 + 4 * a * c) / (2 * a)

... Although, one could argue that allowing tightened multiplication and division are enough.
> A few days later, in early September, 2014, Sewell was rushed to the hospital with a serious head injury after an accidental fall inside his house. Medical personnel found a clot in his brain. After three days in the hospital, Sewell died, at the age of thirty-nine.

Head injuries are no joke, people. Even if you recover from them, the epidemiology suggests there are life-long consequences for mental health, intelligence, income, impulse control...
As you point out

> The distinction between "I resent this process and need my laptop for work" and "If they take my laptop I'm going to be in trouble" is probably below the threshold of their training.

And I agree with you. But 1000s of people must resent the process and need their laptops! If they picked up on that, they would have to confiscate laptops approaching 100% of the time they asked people questions about it.
Great suggestions here so far and a common thread I noticed is leveraging platforms such as Slack/Gmail/Trello/Shopify etc. - essentially an B2B platforms. My friend and I currently run cardsync.xyz on Trello which allows Trello users to sync their cards and it generates under $1000/month. We spend about 2-10 hours a week on it.

You will be at the mercy of these platforms when (not if) they decide to change their rules but until then, it can be a good source of side income.
Extreme Poverty Has Plummeted. But Not in Middle-Income Countries
No, it was Athens to TLV. I should mention that this was an El Al flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al#Airport_security_measure...

"El Al security procedures require that all passengers be interviewed individually prior to boarding, allowing El Al staff to identify possible security threats. Passengers are asked questions about their place of origin, the reason for their trip, their job or occupation, and whether they have packed their bags themselves. [...] Even at overseas airports, El Al security agents conduct all luggage searches personally, even if they are supervised by government or private security firms."

I've also faced heightened security traveling from TLV to other airports, featuring another barrage of questions and extra screening. But to their credit, they helped me skip some lines and get to the plane just before it left.
> When I accrue time off, you as the employer and I as the employee have a written contract on what that time is for, when it can be used, and why it can be used. It places parameters on my time, yes, but it also is an actual agreement between the two of us, in objective terms.

> Whereas unlimited PTO sounds nice, it also opens up more problems between myself and workplace 'culture'. It's so subjective and down to personal opinion as to whether or not I'm abusing the system.

TBH that sounds like the problem was that there wasn't a policy and they just said "unlimited PTO".

I loved having "unlimited" PTO. Our policy was, for all practical purposes, the same as any other PTO policy, except no accrual. I wasn't a manager, so I can only comment on my experience, but I took 5 weeks off in my first year and nobody said a word about it. I know a few people got "warnings" for taking a lot more than average, but it had to be a LOT, and it was still always approved. And then we got bought by a company with a terrible policy :(

A big problem I have with limited PTO is that it's a limited resource, so I hoard it because I don't want to "waste" it, and then I end up not taking much.

And I don't think I'm the only one. With the unlimited policy few people would work from their mechanic's shop, or the airport, or the doctor's office, or anything like that. Realistically they weren't going to be productive, so they'd just take the time off and not worry about it. They didn't work 4 weeks to earn that day off, so it wasn't a big deal.
XRP doesn’t have any anonimity features, you can see who’s on the other end of the transaction and impose sanctions once they try to convert it back to fiat.
It was started by a member of the Auricchio family - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricchio
many of our competitors do allow customers to plug in fake data, it's sad + illegal + gives the space a bad rep. sigh.

this is why we aggressively build native integrations, sometimes 1 per week. deters bad actors.

changelog: https://new.fomo.com
There are a few big benefits to eSignature software

• Your contracts are all in one place
• It's easy to make new ones / send them out
• You can see if the other person has opened it etc.
• It's easier for them to sign

As an individual it's hard to see the benefit of a lot of this software in your own life, just like it's hard to see the benefit of a lot of corporate IT tools to manage two computers at home. But if you have 100 contracts as a company (which is not very many), having an centralised storage function, an easy way to create new ones (say for bringing on a new customer or employee), and analytics that mean you're not asking "what happened to the ACME contract last week."

A lot of enterprise SaaS tools make it easy to organize things that are simple at a small scale, but become very difficult when you increase things by 10-1000x.
Are there other websites like https://indiehackers.com that you would recommend?
I usually search Google for "things i wish i knew when learning X".
Colorado as well: https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/finance_etc/2015/09/...
Fantastic video-streaming services that are not named Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu
4,000 Miles, Seven Countries: An African Adventure on Two Wheels
Plain‽ That’s not a word I’d use for PR! I’d encourage you to try some again and maybe go for one that’s older than 12 months.
https://blog.fomo.com/tag/case-study/
> Good objects are probably somewhere in between Ruby/JavaScript object

How is a Ruby/JavaScript object different from a Java one?
The biggest lesson here is - take more time off!

I've personally had a year where I only took 8 days of vacation and I'm already regretting it a few months into the next year.
Wrong

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle#Auto...
Going viral: the victims of online conspiracy theories
how did you conduct your research phase?
That is what you get for being a communist shithole. India might be a socialist country but it is still a democracy.
you skipped the part about the lawsuit too.
Not to be that guy, but...

x = (-b + sqrt(b**2 - 4*a*c) / (2*a)
Show HN: A Soft Murmur
That's close to the japanese iced coffee method: make the coffee twice as strong as you want it, then pour fresh coffee straight onto equal volume of ice cubes (you can drip pour-overs straight in ice). Super easy and makes for pretty good iced coffee in summer.
I agree, I don't expect any shift against preferred shares (although I'll always advocate that direction). I do think ground can be reclaimed on the liquidity preferences. That particular area in VC today is so frequently egregious I don't think it would be very difficult to rapidly improve it.
Example of this happening with ZFS on Linux, right now: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190111180617.2k5uundov6hf4m7h...
Among other things, I like to compare the tool's popularity with other similar tools by using trends.google.com .
Is there a consolidated list of alliances/carriers that you support? I couldn't see anything on the site
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Looks like the site may be having traffic issues right now, it's unable to fetch my palette from some sites I work on.

Very cool service, nonetheless! I love being able to fetch the palette colors and visualize them on the page here. Looks beautiful. I'm also sort of jealous -- this is a great recruiting tool for designers.

PS: Love the export function!
Indeed, but having heard it once, I found it rather mortifying to hear a milk cow mourn its calf for days on end after the latter got taken away from it. This is about animal welfare more than CO2 emissions. Lab-grown meat and related products can't come fast enough.
On top of that, imagine that China has a larger economy and military budget. That is to say, in about 2 generations the US will lose its military dominance.
I've started adding some posts about the CNC upgrades here: https://nadav.ca/2019/01/18/list-of-3018-cnc-upgrades/

It's still a little bare, but I'm hoping to add more detail as I can. Feedback is also very much appreciated!
Except...there was actually a difference between the perceptions of his tenure and his actual tenure...
Well you can read the thread on the mailing list but to put it bluntly - because they wanted to stop ZoL from working. They view non-GPL kernel modules as a violation of the GPL.

"My tolerance for ZFS is pretty non-existant" Greg Kroah-Hartman

"please switch to FreeBSD instead of advocating to violate the copyright and licensing rule on my and others work." Christoph Hellwig
What it’s like to be an engineer at NPM