skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In-kind benefits of this nature only improve the workplace for people who strongly desire them - people who don't want them are forced to pay for them anyway.

In fact, heterogeneous preferences w.r.t in-kind benefits are an argument for workplace homogeneity (and heterogeneity across workplaces). Women who want flexible hours can go work for a company providing flexible hours. Dudebro neckbeards can work for a company providing unlimited redbull, videogames and vodka even after normal working hours. If they work at the same company someone's pay is reduced to cover benefits they don't use.
That still doesn't respond to the issue regarding why it is Intuit's TurboTax, and not a free solution provided by the government. I mean free, both in terms of cost to the end user, and cost to the government to implement. (I would imagine that long-term, it would even have negative cost to the government.)
I've had job offers revoked, both with verbal AND written offers.

With an "at-will employment" clause, nothing prevents a revoked offer. It sucks if you already gave notice at your current/last job.
I really don't know how much this will help you. Really, building an entire project, especially one which spans 28 weeks, is a huge under taking and takes a lot of determination and effort, which generally comes from passion for the project. So, getting ideas from others and working on them might not actually help you much in the long run, unless you also have a deep passion for the idea.

What would be better is to think about what you are passionate about. Maybe you are having a bit of "Developers block" right now and aren't sure how to get from "I need an idea to work on" to "Wow I can't stop working on this because I am so excited about it." Maybe we can help with that.

So you are interested in Databases and Machine Learning, why is that? What do you like about them?

Do you have a favorite market or hobby you are interested in? Finance, medicine/healthcare, sports, astronomy, chemistry, politics, etc etc etc.

Do you have something that really frustrates you? Or maybe which frustrates a group of people you are associated with?

On that note, do you have any groups you associate with regularly? Teams, religious or community organizations, mentorship groups?

Answering these might help to tease out more information which might lead to a brilliant project! Good Luck!
You are the 'people'. Ask youself what You want. Look around and imagine what future will be like.Make something, make anything.start is important. End is never known.
You're advocating simply refusing to participate in the game, which may be a good choice for you personally but probably isn't applicable more broadly. As an overly-extreme example, imagine if a woman responded to sexual harassment by refusing to ever get a job again. It may have solved the problem for her, but it's not good advice to give someone experiencing the same thing.
That's how I thought about it when reading. I kept wondering whether I was missing something, but: the things to be modeled by programs have a continuum of complexities, but there are only a small number of language constructs to use for modeling, which are each more/less suitable based on the complexity of the thing to be modeled (for one thing). The 'language constructs' from simple to complex are something like: enum, struct, class. It sounds like the author wants something that's between struct and class, though personally, I don't see why doesn't just use a class/objects.
I suspect a lot people just don't want to compete, or think they deserve a job just for showing up to the interview.

Sometimes I wonder if this is a side effect of the all children deserve a trophy culture. People can't accept that they aren't good enough, and need to train some more or develop the right skills.

Or maybe social media has made us sociopathic narcissists ?
I don't know
KDE Applications 15.04 released (now includes Kdenlive)
I use it for this as well, because Yelp reviews have been repeatedly demonstrated to be very unreliable.
Ask HN: Figure out the routes of LA Street Cleaners from 500K parking tickets?
HN - we're looking for some help. We have 500K Street Cleaning tickets from LA. Each ticket has the address of where the ticket was issued, and the date/time of when the ticket was issued.

From the time sequence of these tickets, we'd like to plot on a map the routes that the Street Cleaning Vehicles drive with the approximate start and stop times.

Complications:
1) At any given time, there could be multiple street cleaning vehicles out there.
2) Street Cleaning vehicles follow both daily/weekly/bi-weekly/monthly schedules
3) In general, the tickets are issued at roughly the same time that the street cleaning vehicle passes.... but sometimes it can be 10-15 minutes beforehand.

Okay, that's our problem... give us your best suggested solutions.

Thanks!
There's a difference between requiring to identify oneself and requiring to get an explicit clearance to travel.

Last time I checked, air travel in the US requires a valid ID, but you're automatically allowed to travel, unless you're on some no-fly list or are a wanted criminal. (Last time I took Amtrak it did not require any authentication; I bought a ticket from a vending machine.)

The US system is built with certain distrust to the government, and with a number of checks and balances to prevent it from becoming tyrannical. Hence the idea of the government having no business to know my whereabouts unless there's a good reason to suspect me of some wrongdoing.

I personally don't see an excessively great trouble in anyone having my location data. Still, there are two good reasons for the government to collect as little such data as possible. First, the data may fall to wrong hands: fancy your house robbed when you're traveling? Second, it costs a lot of money to collect the data; if the data are collected "just in case", that money is wasted.
Nope, don't watch TV and never saw it popup on my subreddits or facebook wall. Thanks!
This is why it's good to have a ticketing system. At first, just create tickets yourself for the ad-hoc work (but make it visible to the requestor). I do this for anything that takes more than an hour or so, or for even miniscule tasks if it's a particularly busy time (just to keep track of everything).

If it's a larger request, then you can say "Sure, I'll fix it, but i'll have to stop working on TICKET-1234, is that OK?"

Eventually people learn to create and prioritize their own tickets.

This is also good because sometimes a "five minute" fix can turn into a huge project because of unanticipated factors.
Marco Rubio is the most discussed republican against Hillary
Our Chemistry teacher typed his password on a tablet and the image was projected on the screen. So I watched which keys appeared depressed and was able to login later, view GradeQuick, had ability to change grades, but didn't. Good thing I didn't get caught, I might be in federal prison. I did get caught for making a "virus", which was just a webpage that opened it self onload. I think I just got detention for that though.
Actually no, in most professional leagues the rookie of the year/season award is handed out to the best rookie whether that rookie performed below, above, or at the same level as their more experienced peers. They are graded only against other rookies.
> Pre-Crime

Nice.
ID is a form of authorization. There are plenty of people who can not get a valid ID in the United States, yet they wish to travel too. So, they walk.
You seem to be judging the worth of an argument by the "strangeness" of its implications. That's a curious standard.
Because it's the opposite of net neutrality. It's picking winners and losers. If Facebook is free, but you have to pay for local home grown Indian social networking sites, well then how will those businesses ever compete?

Personally, I'm torn. I'm all for free access to Wikipedia. The problem is, not all of the world's knowledge exists there, so you therefor are only giving people a taste of knowledge.

With Facebook and Google, you are choosing the silos for people, and making it very very difficult for competitors. And without competition, localized monopolies tend to stagnate, which ultimately hurts consumers.
Here's the first page I found that explains what T3 code actually looks like:

http://t3js.org/docs/getting-started/module

I'm surprised to see such tight coupling to the DOM. When they said you could plug in something like React, I figured T3 was mostly scaffolding for dependency injection, cross-component messaging, and global config.

The event handling in particular looks gross. You register for all the events of a certain type across your whole component and then manually filter them in the listener.
That seems like quite a bit 'only'.
The author is also a guard for the Baltimore Ravens.
15 years experience with living in Europe, I've been asked for my ID only a few times, while boarding planes. Never in the streets, at cafes, being 'carded' for wanting to buy a beer, or drink a beer outside if I want to, freely .. without requiring ID. Like, if you think that Europe is all 'citizens, comrade', those days are over. Schengen is awesome!
I wrote a blog post[0] relating to this as well. If you're going to flaunt your framework as the next big thing, you should give real world examples.

My unhappiness with angular is part of why I wrote this up as well. In their own docs they do things that are considered bad practices, they don't have readily available examples for how to test certain things, and they don't have any examples of how a "real" app should look.

I'd love if people that put out these frameworks released a non-trivial app WITH tests, using the framework.

I think Rails has done an amazing job with these things. Their guides are outstanding.

[0]: https://blog.cesarandreu.com/posts/testing_not_as_an_afterth...
Because the US government isn't capable of building software at this level of complexity.
CSHTML5: A Cross-Platform HTML5 Extension for Visual Studio
Probably patched already.
Being in the UK, I only need my licence when ... never really. If I'm stopped by police they can request I turn up at a police station within two weeks to produce my licence but otherwise it's not needed to travel anywhere (excluding flying)
Its not much of a German thing any more, precisely because the Germans seem to have an awareness for just how ridiculous things can get, whereas Americans seem instead to just be fine with the ridiculousness..
I think that the author phrased himself clumsily or (less likely) misunderstands O-notation. My guess is that he intended to say, "As the problem gets bigger, throwing more computing power at it gets less and less efficient," and got tripped up in the words.
Google used to have a very bad reputation about customer service, but in the last 2-3 years they focused on fixing some of these problems. I can't really say they are bad anymore, at least they are in the average, for some products they are excellent. That's my experience.
It is surprising that both Flipkart and Times Group pulled out of Facebook's initiative, but unsurprising that they pulled out in tandem. Both Flipkart and Times Group have taken multi-million dollar investments from early Facebook employees and some even sit on their board. They must have really felt the heat to take such an action. Ironically, a lot of awareness in India around net-neutrality spread through WhatsApp and Facebook!
I like the author's concept of PACELC, though it seems a bit implementation-specific.
They missed my favorite trick!
locals() will give you a dict of, well, local variables, which generally coincides with what you want, so:

a = 4
'A is: {a}'.format(**locals())

works as expected.
10 gbps ethernet?
But is still the same, this link doesn't talk about Google given any ultimatum to publishers.
Same here. I never use water over 180 degrees Farenheit and never put it in the dishwasher.
I was advised, by Germans, to always have my passport on my person when in Germany, as police are empowered to and will randomly stop people and demand identification. One German friend told me that once he was caught out without his ID, and police literally escorted him home to retrieve and show it.

Also had to show ID (passport, in my case, as a visitor from the US) to board planes in Europe.

While traveling on trains in Germany, I was also required to show ID.
>I was a female who went to the bootcamp of LMGTFY

A lot of us went there.
SpaceX Launch You Up (Uptown Funk Parody)
People here don't know Nicholas Zakas?
Tell that to someone on the no fly list.
Decentralized brands the future of marketing
title should say (2010)
I never knew that, my mom did "data processing" for years! She knew Excel, really knew the formulas and everything.
I think it could be really cool to make a physical representation of addressed memory, and then have a few op codes that can be used to solve basic problems. The op codes could be introduced as needed, and problems can grow in difficulty until actual compilation is necessary.

The program could be worked out by physically moving around paper strips with instructions written/erased/scratched-out/rewritten etc.
It is not necessary inside Schengen, but not all EU countries are part of the area - when traveling to UK or Ireland, you definitely need to show your ID.
A lot of good take-aways from this, the most noteworthy and obvious one though:

In interview, Dahl talked at length about his regret that he didn't bootstrap the company, instead trying to raise "a significant amount" early on.

"What I should've done is really start with a fraction of what I would actually need and once you have enough demand, raise more," Dahl said.
Apparently Times Group hasn't really pulled out. They have announced that they will, provided their competition pledges to do the same.
google and apple have the position microsoft had in the 90s

They have the platform and the browser.

Much worse than either of them blocking your competing app from their store, is them providing a half assed version of your product by default on their OS.

just see how many people installed firefox, or a contact manager, or email client.

even in this crowd, i'd bet the numbers are very low.
What's the gain from the snail-mail medium as opposed to getting something like this in your email inbox?
Should You Pre-Chew Your Baby's Food? – US News
As European, I can confirm that I have seen it happen a few times, once even happened to me.

Plus not all European countries are part of Schengen.
Ah, this makes much more sense, thanks.
Brewdler is Bundler for Homebrew
You had a ticket but no physical manifestation of it, or had you not bought a ticket by the time you arrived at the airport? Without a wallet, does that mean without cash?
which leads to http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
Airlines tend to like having ID checks pseudo-imposed upon them, as a way of enforcing non-transferability of tickets.
With this thread + yesterday's about WWDC being so "oversold" and people lamenting their desire to go back to the 500-person meetups of yore I thought I'd share a tip.

I've found it helpful to purposely target the smaller, industry-specific or location-specific conferences.

While you don't necessarily meet the "super angels" or luminary press figures, I almost always come away glad that I went.

Two recent examples was pitching our location startup at the Telecom Council's "Connected Car" start-up:

http://telecomcouncil.cvent.com/events/connected-car/event-s...

I think registration was $200 and it was maybe 300 people deeply connected into the telecom and auto industries.

Or the App Developer's Alliance in Los Angeles (regionally important to us):

http://www.appdevelopersalliance.org/

Again, great people, lots of indie devs, etc.

I could walk away from both being materially glad that we attended, and with a list of people that I connected with face-to-face and look forward to doing business with.
I did the same, but did NOT have a computer. I had picked up non-functional Commodore 64, its manuals, and some magazines.

Since the computer didn't work, I spent my summer of '94 writing BASIC code that I'd never run.
And motorcycles need constant maintenance.
Sorry JS developers. Guess you have to rewrite all your React apps in T3. Yes, I know you rewrote your Angular apps 6 months ago, your Ember apps a year ago, and your backbone.js apps before that, but that's just how front-end dev works.

PS: I'm currently hiring for developers with 3+ years of T3 experience.
I can drive to the airport right now and fly to China without doing any prior paperwork. That doesn't mean I don't need it approved by the government, that just means I already got it approved and the approval is still valid.

If I didn't have that visa, I'd have to go get one before I can fly to China. Likewise, if you didn't have an ID, you'd have to go get one before you can fly at all. But I do have that visa, and you do have that ID, so we don't have to do anything more.

You need papers, and you can be prevented from flying if they don't want you to. I don't see the qualitative difference, just the quantitative one that a state ID is a lot easier to get than a visa.
> Facebook cannot become AOL (which is what all the platforms desperately want to become) unless they can vertically integrate with the network.

Maybe you could also interpret the backlash against Zero/AOL as an indication that customers do not want corporations regulating their access to information. So perhaps network carriers should think twice about aiming for a captive audience with "vertical integration".
It's funny you mention that, because he doesn't bring up bicycles in several of his post-apocalypse books (I'm thinking of The Stand as one specific example -- the characters all walk from one end of the country to the other).
until those have to be licensed, with appropriately-displayed plates.
It's talking about the use of a dominant position in search to muscle into other markets, not challenging search dominance directly.
It was Go. It took me awhile to get the src command line tool working, not sure if it was ever 100%. I seem to remember atom throwing some exceptions too, I figure I'll try again in a year (which is the last time I tried to get this working I think).

I can give it another try and document the process if you want to help me figure out the issue.
I agree that competing with those guys is incredibly hard, because of their huge advantage. On the other hand... IE lost the browser wars. Is it such a good example?

Edit: See comments. IE is still going strong.
> Well, you started off dismissing the tactic as ineffective

I don't think the tactic is ineffective at what it is designed to do -- including where that comes to eliciting a certain emotional response among a substantial segment of the population.

I think that the upthread description of what that intent is is completely wrong, though, and that it would be ineffective at what was described upthread.

> I was just pointing out that you were wrong on the first.

No, you were asking if I would admit the possibility of variation in emotional response, which isn't the same thing as "pointing out that I was wrong". If you want to actually pose an argument that I was wrong, go ahead.

But I still don't agree that it is effective at making people notice the money paid in taxes any more than they would without it (nor do I in fact think that that's what any of the powerful interests backing the policy actually want), which was the claimed reason it was necessary.

I think it may be effective at getting some people angry at the IRS and government in general, irrespective of the actual level of taxation or any awareness of the actual money involved. Which, I think, is a lot more likely what the political actors involved actually want than reminding people of the actual money involved in taxes is.

(I also think it is illegitimate either for that purpose or the purpose posited upthread, for similar reasons.)
A lot of us buy into that notion actually. Most people over 30, in fact.
Personal and business relationships vary from person to person. I guess the assumption is that, if you are skilled enough at engineering and marketing, you will find yourself getting clients and make money hand over fist.

Unfortunately for me, I'm purely a technology guy, not a people person.
This is very similar to the path many people take using Excel and diving into VBA via macros.
Check out the echo chamber at the back of studio 2!

https://insideabbeyroad.withgoogle.com/en/all-access/studio-...
Feels like they could clean up a fair bit by making those modules as custom elements
LinkedIn Acquires Lynda.com: An Analysis
I think that's an optimistic view. If their scale means that they can offer the same product at half the price, people are going to be very forgiving of customer service snafus.
THAT is how you get downvoted around Python people...

Edit: I'm hellbanned already, so... :-)
I'm fairly sure The Stand uses bicycles as the primary mode of transportation? Unless I'm mixing that up with Under the Dome, but I don't think so?
I think people's email inboxes are so cluttered, that things get easily dismissed. Receiving an actual letter in the email, now that's something I haven't experienced in a while!
Foursquare isn't about checkins anymore, it's about discovery and the TL;DR.

Yelp users love to go on and on and on in their reviews while Foursquare's ratings aren't review-driven though I've found them just as accurate.
LOCUST: Autonomous, Swarming UAVs Fly into the Future
I can't tell if this is a serious comment or a sarcastic one, but I'll bite.

This is blatantly false. I'm not asking them to replicate the full features of TurboTax. These low-income households do not need a full-featured free program. They pretty much just need a single field filled in on their 1040EZ from their W-2, with maybe some questions about child support, local taxes, and the like. This is well within the reach of the US government. For example, both Federal and State governments are able to automatically link household names and addresses together with tax returns to automagically populate college financial aid forms. [1]

[1] https://fafsa.ed.gov/help/irshlp9.htm
its time for microsoft to rewrite IIS from SCRATCH!
Not trying to argue here, just trying to understand you. At the point where ID is required, it becomes de facto permission for that specific travel, no? Without ID, that travel is denied. (Or at least, that's the author's point.)
The Never Ending Match
Recently there has been an interesting method of getting around this, which at least is interesting: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/03/see-this-guy-get-...
This makes me wonder: do you need ID to take a train within the Schengen area? I'd imagine not.
I use my AeroPress twice a day, every day and love it. But the article is mistaken in calling it espresso. It's not even close, although someone has rigged one to produce espresso[1].

And don't let the article fool you, there are really only three important factors: water temperature, grind size, and steep time. Varying these can get different characteristics from a particular roast, and it's fun to experiment! What I found most surprising was how differently the same roast can taste from an AeroPress vs. an expensive espresso maker. If I don't like it from one, there's still a good chance it will be delicious from the other. Very strange!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIfZ84qtBOc
Novelty.

Physical reminder vs something that is too easily filed away or deleted.
How much should I pay for a logo?
It's the HP T5735. It's second hand from ebay. I got the fat version that has an extra PCI slot and I put a Realtek gigabit NIC in there. It's fast enough for home use, it does not saturate with my 200 megabit link. I use a TL-WR1043ND as an access point and VLAN-capable switch.
Are you a marketer who needs to learn HTML5 and CSS3?
Be-friend someone who works for the city? I'm dead serious. I mean, you could solve this challenging technical problem only to have the schedule changed from underneath you without any notice.
Isn't the O(n) version actually O(NlogN) because of the sort?