skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> might reduce your mortality

might increase your mortality, actually. That is reduce your life expectancy.
So I don't have any specific knowledge on this, but the intuitive answer is a combination of:

a) The Department of Labor puts out these measures in a boring, dry document. The news media then picks which measures to report on that will grab headlines.

b) Politicians and public officials latch onto the numbers that allow them to paint government and policies in the best (or worst) possible light.

Both of these lead to simplification of the source data. And if you are trying to paint it positively, you'd probably pick the narrowest, lowest unemployment number.
Ross Ulbricht got a Fair Trial (but not a fair investigation)
Shen 17 released under BSD license
Could/Does Visual Studio run in Linux?
Neil Young's PonoPlayer: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Oh and I forgot: the UX is abysmal and has to be learned. It's definitely a 'modern' web app shoe-horned onto the front of an older app.
When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435K check
Yes, UK here!
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I am not sure Netflix would give a crap...

They'd want you to change your password to prevent it... but you're supplying them with a random name and address... pretty sure they aren't interested taking it on faith that that person is responsible and then attempting any intervention.

I would also be fearful of living in any city where Netflix theft is handled with any serious police resources.
Costco also has a code encoded in the last digits of the price, different last digits mean different things.
The management was making $28k a year salary. I don't know how viable a business it was even without the minimum wage increase.
>How are those same politicians going to feel about cranking the work week back to 20 hours and tripling the minimum wage to make everything balance out?

They will feel how the people tell them to feel (ideally).

Now, the real problem, how to change people's minds?

I see that as a job well suited to HN frequenters: intelligent, imaginative, creative people need to take their responsibility as harbingers seriously and evangelize for a better future. Smack one molecule at a time and eventually the whole pot boils. Show people that the way things are done are not necessarily how they must be done. As a group, we've done a pretty good job in certain areas but I definitely see a lot of reluctance to tackle macro-social problems with the same zeal as attacking other historical accidents that impede progress like Uber taking on cab companies.

It's tricky, sure, but its all in our collective head.
I put a ball in your hands. How do you get the idea to throw it? Who is giving it to you? Your logic work that way, through countless genetic iterations.

Now, the fun part, is that dogs, through similar genetic iterations, have evolved to love catching said ball and bringing it back to us.

Life is fun.
Interesting quote from README.md:

"You can 'watch' the repo to see Linux and Mac support being added over the next few months."
Why you shouldn't not not found a Startup
- dispatching and listening to actions. you need to pack your action with a magic string and a param object then unpack the params again in every listener. It's easy to forget what the params names are and its hard to see what the function gets as params just from its signature.

It would be much nicer to have e.g.:

context.actions.myAction('foo', 'bar')

And

onMyAction: function(foo, bar)

- dealing with asynchronous data fetches. The example shows that you should create 3 actions for every async data action: FETCH_STARTED, FETCH_COMPLETE and FETCH_ERROR.

How would you deal with cases where you need to fetch multiple data sources then combine them? Seems like the number of actions would quickly explode. Also, how would you deal with dependencies and errors?

- the service api:

context.service.read('message', {}, {}, function (err, messages)

too many optional params, kinda hard to keep track what goes where.

I'd prefer something with promises.

- I also miss query params support in fluxible router
One of the extensions that is priceless to haw I do this is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...

The ability to shift select tabs and bookmark, move to a new window or close is amazing.
That's just for rendering. All the controls and data-binding mechanisms are straight-up C#.

For example:
http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#PresentationFramework/...
Ask HN: How should we write our next JavaScript front end?
We are starting 3 new projects that are very heavy and complex on the web frontend side, and we are a bit undecided about how to go about writing the frontend.

What we are sure about is that after we write part of the apps and give it some structure, some parts of it will be outsourced to external firms, so we would like to use a JS framework just so that most of the stuff going in will be already documented and done for us ("just use Angular and follow the best practice document here").

Just by looking around our first choice was Angular, but since 1.x is known to be superseded by Angular 2.x, and since 2.x is not here yet, we would like to go with something that we know will be here for the next 2/3 years, since we know that the apps will live at least for the next 5/6 years.

The ideal thing would be a list of JS libraries and a document describing how those libs should be used to work together, and how to structure the code, so that when something better comes out we can just switch a lib and refactor the parts that used that lib to use the new one.

Is there something like this out there? Do you have any suggestions?
This is an anticipated side-effect of raising the minimum wage: it raises the "table stakes" a small business needs to compete. Sad, but not in the large surprising.

(One could argue that it's also an anticipated side-effect of being a bookstore in a world moving away from bound print media, but I don't think that's the larger factor here; it's not like anyone expects Barnes & Noble to go under any time soon).
Rent alone would come out to about 50% of your take home pay[1] (estimated of course - you would probably get less depending on benefits). Assuming if you hunted you might be able to rent for $1500, but from zillow[2] the rent appears to be from $2-4k+. If you showed me an apartment for $1.5k and the average is $2k I would want to know what is wrong with it.

In my suburban area - I could get a mortgage for a $100k house with at least 2br for about $500/month.

Of course people at Google probably don't get paid exactly $100k but keeping in mind a good sized chunk of that is just going toward living there.

[1] - http://www.calculator.net/take-home-pay-calculator.html?cann...

[2] - http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/Redwood-City-CA/house,c...
Email me - sam.granger@gmail.com and I will check for you.
Are people defending "all intensive purposes"? I think descriptivists get a bad rap sometimes for "anything goes" but that's not true either. All intensive purposes is clearly a mistake.
What is the difference between double-dot .. and triple-dot ... in Git?
In case it's not obvious...

D E A D B E E F

Those are all valid hexadecimal characters. Much like C A F E B A B E for Java class files.
I learned iOS myself, and I know it would be harder for me if I didn't learn different flavors of programming languages and basic data structures at school.

I don't know how good people are at evaluating the usefulness of knowledge and skills they've acquired, but I'd believe there is some kind of bias. I tend to think things I know are trivial and can be learned easily. But I've also seen smart but non-CS background people cobbling poorly written code together only to make it work and he wished he has taken some CS classes while at school as well.

It might be true that smartest people can learn everything on their own, but by definition 'most people' aren't the smartest.
For all intensive purpose`s ,your write ,but is they`re really any need to disperage on peoples` pet hobby`s ?

Myselfs` experience has been that even descriptivist`s have a braking point ,they`res always something that make`s them cry ,,, `stop !`, even when its' clear enough what is meaned !!!We`re is you`re point .I wonder!

Of coarse ,perchance the point is mute ,nobodies` going too pursuede the gy to stopp useing his toothcombs`,,,
I wonder how this would aid projects such as IronPython and IronRuby if at all, just out of curiosity. My only dream is that they eventually have VS on Linux.
I agree...I find myself on both sides and that's why I presented both sides. I've decided that I want to learn as much from the prescriptivists as possible, since I find the evolution of language to be a fascinating topic. But I've also decided that I have very little interest in correcting people, so I try to vary my behavior contextually. I do my best to avoid mistakes in grammar in my own speech, but I don't correct other people that use them. And I try to use as much language precision as I feel the listeners are able to grasp.

It's almost like a client-capability protocol upgrade in the tech world...if you can use the enhanced protocol, you can benefit from it. But if your client (the person you're speaking to) doesn't understand the subtlety of your word choice, it's pointless and potentially confusing to choose the more advanced usages. So I fall back to the common usages that tend to bother prescriptivists.

But since this forum seems to be the more capable, here's one departure that people might find interesting. "All intensive purposes" is a malaprop, a specific language error that's almost never considered to be correct. But they can be fascinating examples of how we make sense of the world. My mother was a child psychologist for 30 years and collected malaprops from the children she saw. Children, especially those who have not yet started to read, have very small vocabularies and learn words phonetically from those that speak to them. When they encounter words that they don't know, they try to make sense of them from the context in which they're used and the similar words that they've already learned. This is a surprisingly effective technique, but often results in some interesting mistakes that surface as malaprops. My favorite example was a child that thought that Alzheimer's disease was actually "old timer's" disease. From that one mistake, you can really see how children approach unfamiliarity in their world.
Who cares if it has a "logical error", whatever that even means, if you understand. And I know you understand it.

Millions of people use this idiom completely intuitively, following their instincts of language that I, as someone who doesn't have English as their native language, can only be jealous of.

"I could care less" is either meant to be taken sarcastically, or it came to be because the "dn't c" consonant cluster is hard to pronounce, the same reason you don't pronounce the 'l' in could, the 'k' in knee, knight or knave, the 'p' in psychologist or pneumonia, or half the letters in Wednesday.
I don't think anyone's really tried, outside the Gingery books and such. (And even Gingery bootstrapping is just a machine shop, much less modern technological civilization.) Here on Earth we have to trade long distances to get raw materials anyway, so we might a well trade other things. Even in the most isolated areas, outside goods tend to leak in.

A new planetary economy would certainly have to be very tightly circumscribed in terms of materials and techniques, and even then I think it would be dismayingly huge, though modern techniques like 3D printing would help. It would be a worthwhile exercise just to plan such a thing on paper. Might make an interesting if overly-complicated game with sort of a Dwarf Fortress feel.
> I've been in tens of countries and the only place which does not include taxing in the price was the US.

You need to visit more countries then.

The reason for not including the price is that taxes can vary by city. Which makes is impossible to place an advertisement that lists the price in a wide area.

Any country that has local sales tax will be like the US in this.

And I personally think the US should just round to the tens place and forget both the nickel (5 cent) and the penny entirely. They'll have to issue a new coin in place of the quarter (25 cent) so it'll never happen, but it would be nice.
Dual-band (2.4GHz, 5.8GHz) AP with a Qualcomm 802.11ac SoC. Maybe it uses 802.11s to assist with mesh layer 2 routing? I'm curious to what extent the device may depend on Cloud-based mgmt services provided only by Eero, similar to Cloudtrax and Meraki's offerings?
Not yet. MonoDevelop is the closest you'll get at the moment.
Can you share any information about people taking the same job for less pay? I haven't seen evidence of this, but I don't doubt that it's happening in some places. I'll admit that I live in sort of a bubble because my salary has doubled since 2008 and the salaries of many of my friends and family have grown quite a bit as well. Granted, most of the people I know work in some sort of tech-related field.
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Alan Turing's notes found being used as roof insulation at Bletchley Park
Lookback 0.9: Preview your recorded mobile UX
Will this RPi2 support get upstream into Debian Jessie? That would be awesome.
Why choose a ".co" instead of an entirely different name or TLD? Isn't .co quiet confusing? I think its a bad name inspite of the fact that most people come to you via a search engine.
In any setting like a college any student who needs a daycare isn't employable anyway so maybe that environment is still best for them (hopefully done on the cheap). But if you're serious about a subject, you enjoy it or strive to make money from it and contribute to society you put in the work, go to the library, participate in discussions, own that subject during your time there. You are giving it more thought than most people.

Why is this so hard to understand? I think it's great for people to rebel against the system that is expensive and seemingly drawn out for you so as to control your destiny. Doesn't mean the existing infrastructure isn't for anyone at all. There's a lot of effort of the past put into educating people. Dig in and fix it, don't give people head trash to denigrate what is a reasonably effective way to learn, grow and get work in the world.
I hope they manage to keep the cafe open. The staff is awesome, and it's a wonderful environment to work out of from time to time.
This is how App Store ratings work
Netflix may be contacting the local police and letting them know about you, this list of information stolen from their systems that you sent them, and how you told them it was for sale. You may hear from the police before you hear from Netflix.
Maybe you can still get some donations by some other means

(I've heard of Patreon, or PayPal Donate buttons)

The "pay what you like" might end up working in your favor :)

I think there were some trials where a "suggested" amount worked best (I don't know how you're getting paid, but there must be an administrative overhead).
Take a step back and read it again from another angle, you missed some things.
I spent quite a lot of time playing ADOM, which is a roguelike like Nethack, and I can attest to enormous complexity and devilish difficulty level of such games. They are so huge - in terms of items, locations, NPC, quests and everything else - that you really can't even imagine it without a couple of weeks of playing with them; it then takes years to complete the game for yourself, and if that's not enough there are challenge games (not using certain items, never eating, finishing game naked, stuff like that).

The essence of roguelikes is that of Diablo and other similar games: you're walking around killing things, picking up items and advancing levels. In most roguelikes, however, your freedom of movement, details of the environment, number of choices to make are on a whole another level. Why have 3 (or 5) PC classes, when you can have 20 or 22, each really unique in strengths and weaknesses, utilizing different tactics and strategies? And PC race matters too, so the number of available combinations is ~(12 times 22) before you even started playing!

One in-game example of how detailed and complex roguelikes tend to be: some levels are flooded and you can't get past water without knowing how to swim... Wait, no. You of course can go into the water, no matter the swimming skill. Without swimming skill - and with swimming not trained very high - you'll lose some HP due to drowning. You can reduce the chance of drowning by leaving your heavy equipment on the ground. On the other hand, going into the water in this shiny metal armor will make it rust. After a while. Note that there are metals that do not rust, these are safe. Also, the scrolls and magic books, if not wrapped in a waterproof blanket, become unusable after some time in the water. You also obviously don't want to try lightning based magic when standing in the water. But hey, you can just build a bridge! If you have a skill for it, a hatchet and some trees nearby. Or, and this is my favourite way, you can just freeze the water with (most of) ice based spells. But don't do this when being chased by a fire using enemy: your ice bridge can easily melt. Also, keep an eye on how much your equipment weights: bridges made of ice are not very solid. You could also get a pickaxe and try to dig your way around the water, but this takes time, so maybe a wand of digging would be better...

And that's the number of options available in only one of hundreds of different and interesting situation the game puts you in. It's an experience as close to classic table-top RPG as possible without a human as a dungeon master. It also makes you forever unimpressed with "interactive environments" and "complicated plots" of modern games.
That sabotage was "necessitated" by the desire for fast proof-of-work verification.

With hashcash, proof attempt is as hard as proof verification, but there are other asymmetric schemes where the former is much harder.

The first such PoW was primecoin. My own design Cuckoo Cycle is another, that aims to be the most memory bound of all PoWs.
I expect the other tables there contain the information to get some answer to your "neither employed nor unemployed", several of them analyze the workforce. For instance:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm

I don't think I'm very informed on this topic, I just happen to know the BLS is tracking a lot more than gets reported in the news.
Ack, I don't know how that happened. Thank you!!!
Doesn't sound very greenfield if you're already forced to use an aging legacy technology.
The Reference Source site is much easier to navigate. Method names are hyperlinks:

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/string...
> We still have the democratic system

Not really, not anymore, we're an oligarchy now, money gets what money wants now that we have unlimited contributions.

> as things get tighter and people poorer they'll start voting for a tax on capitol.

No they won't, the rich are in control, this is an oligarchy, they aren't going to do this to themselves.
Writing the test is the experiment, in your example. You're playing with how it is going to be used and interacted without worrying about the details/implementation. You'll take care of that later.
>Or, it shows what I believe: demand for labor is decreasing even as the economy grows.

I hope this is the case. Automation should be putting a great deal of workers out of the labor force. The question is how can we deal with it: through workforce education and skill retooling? Through social assistance programs? It will likely be the question of our generation.
If you find this interesting, take note that people were writing bots to beat Rogue over 30 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)#Automated_pl...
see: sarcasm
Why does it need to be under-the-table? It seems pretty clear to me:

— military industry wanting more money

— deterrence

— air superiority

— hi-tech jobs, research and manufacture capabilities

Probably even in this priority order. The bottom line is that there is a lot of good in this "useless fighters", even if it's not as sexy/obvious as DSN. There may be a corruption element, but it doesn't mean that the program is "useless" for general public.

After all, I'm writing this to you using the heir of DARPA's "stupid entanglement of number-crunching machines".
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Blindfolded Zelda: OOT is a thing too, they did it live at AGDQ this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhPA_TpkzkA
It's a complex topic, far more than an HN topic can cover, I'd recommend Brad Feld's book "Venture Deals" for a deeper look at the topic.
"Honestly, probably the realistic view is that it never makes sense to colonize, or even send long-term human presence to, any planet besides Earth."

The sole point is the experience of colonizing other planet. We're not looking to get there for the resources (stop for a second and just think out of the box), we're looking to get there to be able to live there as a species.
Yes, it's like people think they've stumbled upon something novel by "exposing" the definition of the U3, which has been in place and largely unchanged for a long time.

It would be equally "misleading" to just say 11% of people are unemployed by using the U6. There's nuance to these numbers.

This article calls the official unemployment rate "misleading." That's moronic. It's explicitly detailed and if you prefer to use a different metric, do so. The value of the # is not the specific percentage itself, it's the trend. Follow any trend you like, they've all had a similar trajectory the last few years.
Can you turn off pull requests?
Well, the overwhelming majority of people support an increase in the minimum wage, immigration reform, and a host of issues that Congress has not budged on. Why? Because they're beholden to a handful of special interests. I consider myself liberal, but if we're being bluntly honest both parties are stuck for the same reason. Even if one is worse than the other. ;)

I absolutely agree that we are in a great position to influence debate. If anything needs to be disrupted, it's the political system. I wish more folks with our skill sets were interested in tackling something like that.
They already seem to be compiling for Linux on Jenkins: http://dotnet-ci.cloudapp.net/view/dotnet_coreclr/
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RansomWeb: Crooks Start Encrypting Websites and Demanding Thousands of Dollars
>except for compatibility with GPLv2

I suppose this is important to Mono guys as mono is GPL AFAIK.
Another way to look at this ...

Broadband is very competitive, therefore Dish could not simply pocket the $3B savings as shareholder profit, instead they lowered the price of their product and services.

The $3B was a subsidy to rural US TV viewers who are a substantial constituency, in particular for the US Republican Party.
Help design and develop the next-generation crowdsourcing platform, a platform which can potentially replace MTurk.
Most businesses survive on slim profit margins. Most businesses are barely viable. This is why minor changes in the availability of credit, for example, can cause a recession.
I feel like this is already picked apart by more focused competitors that already exist. For instance, the todos part of this app is competing with Todoist et. al., the kanban board competes with Trello et. al., etc.