skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think implied point was, that while raising minimum wage also forced fast food joint to raise prices, demand stayed same.

Things to be wary about - this is limited experiment with two fast food joints.

1. This might be a fluke, with only two fast food places compared data sample is very small - at best it is case study. Apparently this is incorrect, see comment below.

2. Their monitoring period was only 11 months. Who knows what will happen in 5 years?

All that said, I applaud their effort. Too many things are taken for granted in Economics because they "make" sense. Real world is so complex that things are often counter intuitive.
Thought experiment: How many famous people date busboys and cater-waiters? How many CEOs date Starbucks baristas?

People in Hollywood date other famous people. Successful people tend to go after other successful people. As much as generic 16 year old Jessica in Montana wishes, One Direction is not going to swoop out of the sky and date her.

It's of course nowhere near accurate or absolute those positions hold, but, social spheres (and intimate octahedrons) form around people of like interests and abilities.

There will always be a romcom to say otherwise though. CEO meets hostess. President of USA meets stripper. College professor meets checkout person at Target.
Love to know a <4hr route that you can do even at safe slightly-over-the-speed-limit speeds.

(CA native).
So, let me get this straight - he tried Google with no follow up and then a tiny startup where he indeed got an interview.

How does that in any way mean that "It’s a proven strategy to get C-level attention at virtually any company"?
I am always skeptical of studies that make "teenager" a combined demographic with regards to their expected responsibility (as opposed to likes/dislikes, etc). Being 19 is worlds apart from being 15. At 15 I still lived at home, worked on some farm for ~nothing and my dad provided me with everything a parent should. This is pretty much what was expected at the time. (It was a while ago so a cell phone was not even really an option). But at 19 I had already moved out and was 100% supporting myself. This is also pretty much what is expected, at least by parents. :) So to lump them into the same group in a situation like this strikes me as odd.
I claimed a code earlier, and am back to share some thoughts.

I have been looking for this app since I owned a Treo. Setup was a breeze, and everything worked exactly as I expected it would. Call quality was clear, although I noticed a little delay that I'm not sure if was the result of cell network or just being able to hear the person calling me in the other room. I was pleasantly surprised to hear the computer ring the same as my phone (not sure what I expected, though), and the little battery and cell meter are excellent additions. Reading the address book for the image was also awesome, and another pleasant surprise. Aesthetically, it's pretty, but it also works easily and well - what I expect in Mac software.

Some things I don't like: The app is a space hog on my screen. Ideally I'd prefer it be in the menubar, and only be a drop-down text box that I can type a name or number in to, and the icons can be the signal indicators (optionally, of course, and defaults to a phone). Failing that, I'd prefer the window be resizable at least. I don't need a full dialpad since I'll be dialing from my keyboard anyway. On the note of the keyboard, I like that the caller image was the iOS-7-style rounded icons, but the dialers are old, square keys. Lastly, it looks like you made all of the integrations and just stopped - the menus are sparse, and feel like you just ignored they were there in a default Xcode project. If I'm dealing with phone numbers or address book data, I don't need any text editing beyond maybe cut and paste (see the Edit menu - all of that text stuff is unused. Also, "Help isn't available for Connect" isn't helpful at all. Make it friendly ("Help is on the way, but not here yet.") or have it open Safari to your support site, email, something.

All in all, I like it, and as I said, I've been looking for this app for over a decade. With that comes a price critique - I would have gladly paid a lot of money for this in the past, but nowadays so much of my communication is through the iPhone's other capabilities, and my calls are rare anymore. At $0.99, it's a no-brainer. At $3, you're going to need reviews that defend the app's functionality and compatibility since it's out of the impulse buy window. Luckily, you've got one of those coming shortly. Best of luck, and great job on the app!
From that perspective, less.js is kind of a post processor.
Fair enough, but the "Buffet Rule" hasn't happened, and almost certainly won't during his term.
I would agree with the fashion profiling argument, but I had a (black) friend arrested on his way to a job interview in a suit for switching subway cars. The only reason he switched the subway cars was due to a homeless person smelling up the car he was in. Pretty sure if he was a white male he would not have been arrested.
For intermittent motion to produce continuous motion, you need to store energy to have a supply of power for the lul when the input is not moving. Without energy storage, it is impossible to continue doing work on the output when the input is not moving. Does that make sense?
It appears to be available right now

http://ubislate.us/product.php?prodid=1
We're talking about a culture that esteems criminality - that jeans style is prison fashion. People don't get to choose their skin colour, but they do choose what they wear (and no, you don't need a $2000 suit to avoid police harassment, a $20 one will do just as well).
Sorry you guys had trouble with Ember Data. Our first conception of Ember Data was that it would act as an ORM on top of JSON, and the architecture would allow developers to build adapters for many different kinds of backends.

Unfortunately, there is no JSON analog to SQL. Every existing backend forms their JSON differently, especially when you start modeling relationships. It would be like trying to build ActiveRecord if every team rolled their own query language for each new project.

We're trying to make this better in the long-term with projects like http://jsonapi.org, and https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers for Rails. We'll get there someday.

In the meantime, we totally rebooted the Ember Data project to make it simple for people to customize how their apps consume JSON APIs. Most people we've talked to have been very happy about the fact that the defaults are simple to override now, and how much simpler the internals have become. We have a small amount of work left to do before we declare a 1.0 final; in the meantime, we've cut a 1.0 beta build that you can get from http://emberjs.com/builds.
BoltBus to Boston was moved last month from its Penn Station location (at the request of NYC DOT & a community board) to 33rd St between 11th and 12th -- a dead block pretty far away from anything. They sent out an email two weeks ago asking for cust feedback on an "opportunity" to move to 1st Ave between 38th and 39th. They wanted feedback within a couple of days to tell the city, so the city obviously has some control/input, but I don't know the extent.
Or at least say upfront if you are or not. I think it's not exactly unreasonable to compare "out of the box" to "out of the box", but it should be clear that's what you're doing.

Really I think this sort of thing should be encouragement to make the opcode cache no longer a default-off additional thing. There's no good reason to have a php deployment -- even one that's just for dev purposes -- that doesn't use an opcode cache.
We tried HHVM for use with our "normal" PHP.

There was a measurable performance increase, but it was disappointing overall. Perhaps my initial hopes were too high.

Our company is small and engineering/ops resources are very limited, leading to a lot of pragmatic decisions. After a few days of experimentation, I decided that HHVM was promising, but for us it's not yet worth the extra ops infrastructure.

We get much bigger improvements tuning other pieces of our stack.
You can use LESS's nested syntax in order to generate prefixed CSS classes instead of nested CSS selectors, if you prefer them. That gives you the advantage of prefixed CSS classes, but you don't have to repeat the prefix and you have all classes with the same prefix grouped together, which IMHO makes large projects easier to maintain.

.textfield {
&-label {
...
}
&-input {
...
}
}
I think it's entirely dependent on the area, and using breathalyzer tests in one city as a proxy isn't very convincing. I grew up in a mostly white, upper middle class, Boston suburb with next to no violent crime. All I've ever seen the police do is harass teenagers, such as myself for J walking many years ago, or breaking up house parties.

I spent freshman year of university in The Bronx, an borough in NYC which has highest poverty rate of any urban area in the States and by far the most dangerous of the NYC boroughs. I remember early on being afraid of seeing cops outside the bar we all wen't to that openly served minors, but they had more important things to do, such as protecting us on the walk back to campus. J walking is almost encouraged just so you keep you moving. The people police have to deal with are some of the scariest I've ever seen.

Further, every couple days we get an email about students getting mugged or worse, and every time the assailant is black or Hispanic. Without fail, despite 50+ notices at this point. Please, tell me how a cop can put away racial prejudices with statistics like that? Should they? Of course, but it's not that simple.

Ultimately I think the largest problem is the militarization of the police force. An army is supposed to fight an enemy, the police are supposed to protect citizens and mixing up the two becomes very dangerous very quickly.`

*Edit Typos and clarity
The writer was(is) a prosecutor. These aren't hypothetical cases, these are actual things he experience and actual cases he tried. If it were a bunch of kids in a gang riding bikes to terrorize a neighborhood, I think he is probably the person most likely to be aware of that and the differences from his youth. I'm not sure you can challenge his authority on the matter and argue he just doesn't know whats really going on considering his position as part of the criminal justice system.
Me too. I still remember the joy of being able to use ARJ in MS-DOS to split archives across multiple floppies.

Which had the feature before PkZip, if memory does not trick me.

Or my friends on the Amiga world exchanging LHA files.
This looks like a perfect example of what is wrong with TED these days (mostly TEDx, but it's really the original's fault for allowing TEDx's to dilute the brand pretty much to zero) -- that is, a vacuous rant with zero substance.

What do we see? We see lot of words, a lot of conclusions with no logical basis. Example: "The most recent centuries have seen extraordinary accomplishments in improving quality of life. The paradox is that the system we have now --whatever you want to call it-- is in the short term what makes the amazing new technologies possible, but in the long run it is also what suppresses their full flowering. Another economic architecture is prerequisite." -- what does he mean by "full flowering"? How does the current system suppress it? What does this have to do with economic architecture? -- of course there are no answers. Such speeches are never designed to produce anything of value, just to please people who already think in vaguely similar ways.
That may be true of you, or your people. Some people need to make excuses, I guess.
This is great. Thank you for posting this. I am looking to build an interactive display with intermittent rotation of objects, and couldn't think of a way to accomplish this efficiently without resorting to a software solution. This definitely solves it much better!
I think it's terrible for Android qua multi-tasking handheld operating system, but great for making touch computing into a commodity. You know what would be great here would be a 'stripped' version of Android (or whatever) optimized for single-task applications. I want it open enough to be hackable, but I don't necessarily need it to be a general-purpose computer all the time at a low price point like this.
Freemium model almost always works best! Best of luck
I pay the additional cost ($10 line + $30 data) for my phone on our family plan.

This is drastically different from "paying my own phone bill" which would be $100/mo for equivalent service.

Lots of people now are taking advantage of family plans to get reasonable pricing. Even my personal finance teacher (fourtysomething) is on a family plan with his extended family - it's allowed and it's cheaper.
So you are saying that crime is a crime even if it's first-time, nonviolent misdemeanor and you can be deprived of life, liberty or property if due process of law happened?

That horribly low standard for a justice system. Especially that due process of law basically boils down to judge deciding what tickles him the right way.
A hijacked train doesn't make as good an improvised missile as a hijacked plane, so the threat profile isn't the same -- so its not surprising that the security treatment is different.
Who argued it’s the only thing?

You are admitting here that you think it’s plausible that the police profile based on race (i.e. they are racist). That they also look at other things isn’t really surprising (but should nevertheless not be left unquestioned).
Awesome review. Took a dark turn towards the end.
Define 'better'. Personally I think Clojure has a lot going for it, and it's better than a lot of languages in a many ways. However, for the kind of application I work on PHP is significantly better fit than Clojure. Most of the points made in this talk apply to my situation. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history
The new Box Sync 4
That's outrageous. Merkel should have known better.

The Stasi only dreamed of being as pervasive and efficient as the NSA is today, when it comes to domestic surveillance.
Well, times are chanching and the adulthood is coming later than in the 70/80/90's nowadays. We have that whole adulescent[0] hing lasting well into the early 20's.

[0] Adulescent is a french word that is the contraction of the "adulte" and "adolescent" words. Basically: extended teenagehood into the 20's.
I don't think they only surveyed two - the article doesn't say how many or link to the paper, but this could easily be misread as 'they found two fast-food joints':

The two found fast-food joints along the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border

edit: found it: http://www.nber.org/papers/w4509 - 410 restaurants
Snowden: I'll swap you my anti-NSA knowhow for asylum ... Brazil says: Não
Ha. Gotta love sh*t like this. Hilarious
Probably most sales from college kids
> Successful/great people rise above all kinds of adversity and come from all sorts of backgrounds.

Bullshit, almost every rags to riches story has a "And I got lucky and _____" it isn't someone overcoming adversity, it is luck that got their talent noticed. I am not saying those who face hardship don't have talent, just saying it rarely gets noticed due to biases.

> Criminals likewise span every demographic in the U.S.

The poor are extremely more likely to commit crimes. You have to exclude economic factors or you cannot compare anything about crime, it is that large of an impact. Heck the "black problem" you list is 90% due to being poor much more often than other groups.

> The "poor" in our country live an order of magnitude better than many in the world

Pointless argument. Let me turn it around on you. The poor don't have to worry about starving to death nearly as much as elsewhere, but because of this they have a ton of spare time. How many things can you do that are illegal and are entertaining + cheap? I bet you can make a long list. This could just as easily be used to explain why being poor is a bigger problem in the US when using the level of logic this thread is using.

> I just get so tired of hearing everyone blame everyone else except themselves for the directions of their lives.

Are we talking about one singular person? Take the OP, he never claims he shouldn't have been treated as a criminal, his only complaints are that he should have been able to see his family, and he shouldn't have gotten 3 years parole for a non-violent offense.

Are we talking about a group, like poor blacks? You can't blame individual things like this for an entire population, it doesn't make sense. We aren't saying Johnny didn't go to college because he is poor, we are saying the poor on average go to college this much less, which for these reasons is because they are poor.
> You could find a natural strain...

The way "natural" is commonly defined is misleading. Humans are apes, mammals, animals. We're part of nature, and so is everything we create and produce.

Artificial is a subset of natural.
Is there a reason why the inner classes are being used instead of the actual elements?

.textfield {}
.textfield input {}
.textfield label {}

.textfield {
label {}
input {}
}

etc.
The Trie: A neglected data structure
"Professional contact". I chose my words carefully.
Mike Maples on VCs, Godzilla and Toast (2010)
A classic.
I haven't found any evidence that anyone has ever actually been arrested in Alabama for having an ice cream in their back pocket, the nearest I could find was that it was possibly once a tactic of horse rustlers or alternatively is possibly made up. As for folk being wrongfully arrested in Alabama for openly carrying arms, well there's the guy who walked into a bank with a handgun who is appealing his arrest. He got a $200 sentence and no jail time though.
No, I got a prepaid SIM in Germany by walking into a shop and plunking down 10 Euros. You can buy traveler SIMs that work with all sorts of carriers abroad, but it will be more expensive. If you can wait till you get there, it's not a big hassle.
As for keeping up with maintenance, well, that's just criminal while overcharging motorists £25b a year, no?

As for the initial cost, that's harder to figure out, but this (dodgy looking, admittedly) website[1] suggests that a mile of motorway costs £24m to construct. That means that the motorists are "paying off" the roads at a rate of about 1000 miles a year. There are 7500 miles of motorwayways and A roads[2], but motorists have been paying more in taxes than has been spent directly, although not at the current rate, for 30 years, and with no sign of slowing down.

1: https://63336.com/brilliant_answers/2009/06/how_much_does_it...

2: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-lengths-stat...
It sounds like he found the names on the company website and only used Facebook to get their FB IDs. Is that still against the TOS?
I love clojure buti rather use clojurescript since i find it more useful for may needs and usecase.
Ask HN: Computer aided RC combat airplanes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vh_R1NlmX0 is from 2011 SWARM and shows RC aircraft or combat wings trying to hit each other in the air. Scoring a hit is pretty rare. I'd like to enable pilots to score more hits with the help of computers, computer aided targeting to be specific, an event for which they'd use airwolf theme music instead of offspring.

What low cost sensor(s) would you use for detecting planes going 40-80 mph?
Didn't knew of that article, thanks.

Nice one but yeah it kind of sucks that the theory is used like a preamble for trying to sell you LINQ
Phone service is also much more expensive in the USA. In the UK, I pay £25 per month, in the US it's $70.
Any guesses what the sticker price was?
... and the guy who tried to turn himself in for spraying a graffiti it appears.
promoting it is the hard part. You also have to beware of the bargain basement shoppers that will vampire you
Thumbulator - Thumb (16 bit ARM) Simulator
Checkout Flurry's Privacy Policy http://www.flurry.com/privacy-policy.html "The data collected by the agent may include.." Based on this the data sent to flurry's servers should not be that much. They should be also optimizing the size of data sent. Ofcourse you can always watch the data being sent using Charles to get a sense of the size of the payload.
Good weather except for hurricane season.
I feel like a lot of the fear of nesting came about in the era when you couldn't do direct-child selection reliably. I'm pretty sure this is something that was overcome a long time ago now, though. It's a lot easier to limit and control the application possibilities with:

.blah > .blorp

than it is with

.blah .blorp

without resorting to .blah-blorp prefixing.
Startup Law 101 Series - FAQ
A $38 tablet with WiFi is not a bad deal. An Arduino + WiFi alone is higher than that. This tablet includes a 800x600 display too. If the components are of decent quality (i.e., the caps don't pop after a few weeks of use) then it could be pretty sweet for hobbyists.
A little disappointed on the age ranges shown, I'm 31 and my brother 29. We're still on our moms plan. It would be retarded not to when adding a line is $9.99. Also a data package with ten devices on it averages out to a lot more even and non wasteful usage than having to pay attention if one month is 10x more data for me than another
The power of debuggers.
So, the author set out to prove how unfair the justice system is between races, and to some extent he did show that. But, didn't his experience also show that a white person was treated just as by the courts as any other person? Am I missing the point of this article?
I want a widget that I can use on my android phone to link things to my wife. I imagine something like this already exists,I just don't know what it would be called.

I would like to:

1. Use a Google drive account as our shared storage space.

2. Be able to drag and drop files, images, links, maybe drawings to a widget that we each have on our phone. Maybe just having a separate option appear that says "send to widget thing" would be more reasonable.

3. I would like a notification to appear along with led notification. I would prefer to choose how the notification appears.
Leaked: Harvard’s Grading Rubric
In Brazil, it's a luxury to pay for phone/text/data, teenagers and young adults have to pay for themselves because their parents can't pay the bills anyway.
Well that is your problem that you are sick and tired of it. It is pretty well established though that if you live in a poor black community your chances of making it to middle class are many times lower than making it to jail.

Make of that what you want. Perhaps black people are just lazy, stupid? Is that your point? In that case I don't think we will agree on much in life.
It would be nice to see animations of Leonardo Da Vinci's many mechanical systems as well.
Exactly. It's a near perfect example of brand dilution; the quality controls started slipping pretty fast, and TEDx just dropped the floor. You cannot maximize both content production and quality at the same time -- 99.9% of ideas out there are not really worth spreading.

The OP itself is as good example of a "self-promoting psychobabble-spouting android" as it gets.
In summary, donate your body to science.
26-year old woman behind one of this year's biggest venture capital wins
Nope. Getting decent muscle gain, lost a lot of weight and generally look healthier. Me and a friend always go together. He is the kind of guy that can't live without 8 hours of sleep.

We are equal in pretty much everything. He beats me in some points, I beat him in other.

Yes, I would agree that sleep deprivation would be bad. However, what I am saying is that I'm not feeling tired in the slightest.
So why change it in iOS 7 if they are out to "bury" it and trick people?

"Apple is far to good to do X" is not a strong argument. They can and do make mistakes all over the place including their strongest areas.