skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't really matter. It's a pretty simple equation: the WSJ is describing a model where benefits are being reduced while at the same time employees are being "paid in full" as an alternative. I don't think I am reading between the lines there. To follow your analogy, I think it's clear to most people that if a retailer does away with free shipping and does not reduce the price of the product, no mutually beneficial exchange of value is taking place. The cost is going up. So the WSJ is being dishonest in attempting to characterize this as a trade-off.
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"McDonald's had a 'bad' 3rd quarter last year, which means they only made $1B in profit. It was down from 1.5B the previous year.... These companies can afford to pay their workers a living wage."

Big number fallacy... you see a big number and it doesn't occur to you to check against the other big numbers that may be involved. Wikipedia has 36,000 franchises worldwide. Assume we're paying about 100 person hours/day for a franchise, assume 360 days in a year, and you get... about 1.3 billion paid hours. (And I suspect I'm being generously conservative with 100 personhours/day for an average franchise, especially when you account for the whole thing, like the shipping and accounting and such.)

So, all else being equal (which it never is, but roll with it), and had they paid everyone another $1/hour, they'd be making a loss.

You can't just see big profit numbers and go "Oh, they've got money, surely they can pay better!" Capitalism is very efficient (in the conventional sense of the term of "using inputs well") and very competitive, in that McDonalds can't just charge 50% more and nobody changes their buying habits, and it's actually really good at shaving profit margins down to a surprisingly small level, contrary to the numerically-illiterate rhetoric often flung at it.

A lot of big corporations make billions a year, but it turns out that when you do the analysis in percentages, they're typically making waaaay less than you think. For instance, here's the 10 most profitable companies in 2013: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/20/10-p... By #10, "Wal-Mart" (how convenient, a favored bête noire of the labor community), you've got a company pulling in $467 billion in revenue, to make a "mere" $16 billion earnings. That's a 3.4% of their revenue! Yes, it would be a big pile if you just handed it to me personally, but it means that a 4% fuckup at a high enough level would be enough to fry their entire profit.

(Do you do your job with 4% tolerance?)

And those are the 10 most profitable, not even the "average" companies.

There both is, and is not, a lot of money in the system. Start trying to "distribute" the "excess" out and suddenly it looks a lot less "excess".

Further, bear in mind this is simple math. You can't argue away the math.
This is too low level for me.

I don't care. I don't care about TCP, I don't care about UDP, I only care about QUIC because I'm a Google fanboy.

I shouldn't have to care about this. All I want is some very fast, very reliable underlying protocol for my web apps and api endpoints to run on.
IANAL, but that would essentially require contributors to sign a waiver correct? That seems like a fairly large barrier compared to just being able to take contributors code and incorporate it into a closed project, no?
Despite the debate over short-term effects, I think many forget that this is a rebellion over a general and widespread shift of income and wealth toward higher-paid executives and knowledge workers, and away from lower-paid service and production workers.

There are a ton of possible reasons for this (less powerful unions, automation, globalization, etc. etc.) but my favorite is that it happened simply because it could happen; because wages concentrate power and therefore self-reinforce. The power vacuum (and therefore value vacuum) that emerged out of that shift was filled, because it was available.

This is an effort to break that self-reinforcing cycle and say, hey, we as a society do not support the idea that corporations exist solely for the benefit of shareholders; we demand that they start existing a little more for the benefit of their employees too.

We can debate about what effects it will have or not til the cows come home, but the large scale effort is sensible and commendable to create a better economic balance. So far, there's very little evidence to show that it will make the sky fall.
The links in the article to Microsoft's marketing sites are 404ing. Does anyone have good links?
It's hard to differentiate Just Good Enough from Almost Good Enough in a 10 week internship. :-)

The 30x ones usually have a professional reputation that preceeds them - you know before the interview starts, and spend the hour or two selling them. They don't send resumes out. You either have to build people into them, or go hunting once you hear that their companies are struggling. (Or if you hear they are being mistreated)
In the US tech industry, internships are actually fantastic, fantastic investments. You get paid incredibly well, get good names on your resume without 2+ year long commitments, get to network with a variety of people (2-4 companies/regions/industries in 2-4 years) and gives you amazing bargaining power when you head into a full time position.
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There are about 3.3 million people who are affected by this per http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-mi...

The minimum-wage debate is more about politics
than economics

Not for those 3.3 million people, it's not.
Color me skeptical. It's so much more than just being able to port the app.
I finished my school in 1993. None of the computer science teaching was on PC. I have used mainly sun but also HP, next and VAX computers. PC were only used for word and excel.

The school was lending special network card for the few pupils (less than 10 among 400) who had linux on their PC. The common network card (we had network plug in our rooms) was not supported by linux.

Even if linux was not mainstream, Cross-platform had already a meaning at that time and djgpp was well known to run programs on dos (for example caml-light, the ancestor of ocaml).
Yes. Parent is asking what (exactly) is required to provide "dignity and comfort" for the bottom-most rung on the "lifestyle ladder."

For example, if our modern standard of living is compared to medieval times... then many minimum wage workers live in relative dignity and comfort. But I'm guessing you're not using that as the basis for comparison. So please elaborate. :)

[I would try to define a base level for "dignity and comfort", but frankly, I can't even fathom living on minimum wage -- esp. here in Silicon Valley. But I would appreciate perspective from someone with a bit more grounding.]
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It could be as simple as them realizing "hey, that thing we've been doing for the last fifteen years hasn't really been working. So maybe we should try doing the opposite."
Or they'll just hire more illegals. There's 11.5 million illegals in the US already [1] (edit: vs 3.3m legal workers on or below minimum wage [3]!), a large part of which are probably doing "minimum wage" type jobs for less than minimum wage. Every rise in the cost of doing business legally will push a few more jobs towards the illegal, or law-abiding businesses to bankrupcy from lack of competitiveness. My entirely anecdotal evidence places the dishwasher illegal salary in big cities (my data is from New York in 2010 or so) at around $3/hour.

Different countries handle the issue of high minimum wage differently. Some countries have very thorough enforcement and drive the cost of everything through the roof, but end up with a more egalitarian society (I think Norway, where a beer costs as much as a large meal in neighbouring countries, counts). Singapore chooses not to have a minimum wage and to make it easy to import manual labour legally, and affords these labourers the same legal protection afforded any other resident. China uses the hukou system [2] to regulate the influx of unskilled labourers into more prosperous regions.

The US simply turns a blind eye to the rule of law when it comes to unqualified labour, which allows businesses to keep their costs low, and politicians to save face and pretend they did something "for the workers", whilst a side effect is increasing the stress on the legal unskilled residents which might even be a positive for politicians as they love a good crisis.

Conclusion: legal unskilled workers should fight for the law to be enforced, not for minimum wage to be legally increased. It would both remove competition and drive up demand for their unskilled work, and since there is no population explosion in the United States and legal immigration is incredibly regulated, should result in a natural rise of wages matching the higher cost of living in locations like Seattle.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigrant_population_of...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system

[3] http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-are-characteristics-mini...
I prefer it to atom already on OSX.

* handles multiple files well. atom ends up being too many tabs with no quick way to get to them

* MRU file switching

* shows side by side default v user settings

* launches must faster (which is strange since it is based on electron)

* JS debbuger

Can't wait to try the CoreCLR.
Why isn't 25% acceptable to you?

If you get it down to 18% and the company exits at $50 million is the extra $3.5 million going to change your life?
Surprisingly, VS Code handles large files quite well.

Just tested it on my Mac opening an uncompressed ember.js (~1.5MB). The file loads instantly and syntax highlighting is done in less than 1 sec. Movement and editing are very responsive.

On the other hand, when I open ember.js on Atom, it takes more than 10 sec to load and syntax highlight, and moving & editing take .2 ~ .3 sec to complete.
I think he's referring to system updates, not just installed software.

My usual workflow for setting up a Windows machine goes like this:

1. Install Windows
2. Download updates
3. Reboot
4. Download updates
5. Reboot
...
28. Download updates
29. Reboot
30. Download updates
31. Reboot
32. Install software

It's not great. OS X has been doing cumulative updates from 10.x.0 to 10.x.current for what, a decade now?

MS is rebuilding a lot of essential utilities in their "modern" app framework (including the start menu), but as far as I know, the lower level system updates still get distributed the same way as before, and frequently have long chains of prerequisites.
He specifically calls out Greece as a special case. His comments are directed towards economies which are not like Greece.
What's a "designated thoroughfare"? I'm not sure I've seen such a beast.

In my opinion, what's self-absorbed is buying a house on a public road that can be used as part of a longer trip, and then getting upset when people actually use it. If you don't want outsiders driving through your neighborhood, move some place which is off the beaten path, or where you can put up gates or something. This will be less convenient for you, but that's the tradeoff that comes from making things less convenient for others.
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Getting it is easy. Even with very good support for .Net (C#, F# mostly) in Mono, actually developing, deploying and maintaining an application outside of Windows with VS is problematic by comparison. In the past I wrote a couple of web based applications in .Net that could readily deploy to Linux. Even then, deploying to Windows was so less cumbersome than getting mod-mono working we decided it was worth the cost of Windows Web Server (or whatever the 2003 version was called).

At this point, they want to do this with Azure services. Which is very easy to work against with very rich tools in .Net. They're extending this development ability to other platforms, so that hopefully people will choose to use .Net even if targeting other platforms in the hope that people will choose to deploy to Azure over other cloud providers in much the same way that I chose to deploy to windows a decade ago.

This doesn't even count migrations of existing applications, which may well be better off on Azure (in windows) with new systems under Linux. The past two years, I've spent supporting Windows applications where a next generation was moving to Linux (node/iojs). Right now I'm doing this against Azure.

Being pragmatic, I'm even using Azure Storage (queues, tables and blob) for migration data, which means I don't have to setup/configure/manage a bunch of servers to do these tasks. Setting up RabbitMQ isn't hard, but there's time involved. Setting up C* isn't hard either, but if the data is transitional (using azure tables to hold data exported from the old system, and queues to trigger import into the new), it doesn't make sense to configure my own server. After using these services, I may use them more deeply, I'm already using Azure Tables for my configuration settings even, so I don't have to maintain an etcd/consul cluster.

All of this said... while I am mindful of getting locked in, and do have a strategy for breaking out, and my core application data won't be in azure services... actually using them makes me consider using them more.

From my own experience, what they are doing is a legitimate strategy and far better than how they approached it early on, and may still be. I stopped attending .Net conferences/meetings about 4-5 years ago because they were turning into Azure sales presentations more than development presentations in general. This is also the same time node.js started to become a viable contender, and I started using it for web project client files (js merge/min, less etc).
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> Ever want to...

That's because Bash is used to tie together separate programs that do the work. PowerShell, on the other hand, is a .NET shell and more equivalent to the shells in Python, Node, Ruby, the JVM, etc, all of which provide ways to work with JSON and many different data structures.
Yelp is co-sponsoring a new Data Science Contest. Use Yelp reviews in Boston to predict whether a business will have a poor Health Inspection score.

Participate in this contest to help in an important social cause. Cities have limited budgets and currently send Health Inspectors to restaurants on an ad-hoc basis. Using the Machine Learnt models built via the contest, they would be able to assign Health Inspectors to restaurants more efficiently. Past models have shown high accuracy (82%) since Yelpers often talk about the same things that health inspectors look for – cleanliness, ambience, methods of preparation. The contest started yesterday and will finish on June 23, 2015. Winners will win cash prizes from a pool of $5,000.
That's not speculation, that's simple facts. A profitable company can drive some of its profit towards higher employee wages without raising prices.
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Others of us are more interested in providing opportunity, rather than inherent comfort, in the form of achievement.
Maybe we could add in the title the support for objective-c compilation. It's really important.
This is just mind boggling. Quantum related things is one of the reasons I decided to go back to college. I'm just lost in a vortex of unknowing. Props to IBM research team for being able to find the errors within the system.
what? you don't have a 16core/32GB RAM machine with a 4K monitor?
This is a photo of the sales area. Developers are downstairs and have their own offices. If you want to browse on streetview, it's here: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.708443,-74.007121,3a,75y,234...

Source: I'm Nick Craver, a Sysadmin and Developer for Stack Exchange.
Yes, I observe that they are taking good steps and that this is clearly a positive change, but I am too old, it has been too many years, and I can't imagine that I will ever really be able to trust them.

Perhaps a younger generation can get some value out of their products, though, which would be nice for all the people who work there.
Getting lost doesn't remove your ability to read signs that tell you not to enter a particular street.
When I saw companies like Walmart raising their wages:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/why-walm...

And closing stores in response:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-28/walmarts-mysterious...

I realized that of course they would close the stores that are no longer profitable. It's simple economics.
Windows 10 will be able to run compiled Objective-C code written for iOS
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I'm confused - where does he want to work? Domain is "hostmeinca" which I read as "Host me in Canada" but could mean California - and he doesn't really specify anything except that he lives in Slovakia right now.
Hacker News caters to a wide audience. While it may not be of interest to you, someone else is geeking out over it.
Yes, but weren't iPhone OS updates free? At least, I think only iPod touch owners were charged.
It is inevitable, they are going where the apps are. Android apps will run in isolated mode on Windows 10 and you can develop Andriod apps using VS. iOS was a surprise but that would make porting more apps easier. I hope this would finally give the enough apps for Windows phone.
That makes sense. IBM knew we were focused on the POWER7 blades and that our backup plan was their Intel blades, so they probably figured the warning wouldn't be relevant to us.
I can't find the original source for this but this does talk about it [1].

1. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5563&page=17
except for the part where it's written in Javascript and is thus a bloated memory hog, yes.
> Some of us are interested in providing every human being with dignity and comfort, if at all possible.

Providing? Or Enabling?

How about you empower every human being to achieve dignity and comfort?

Education and high-skilled job training.

The solution isn't to just "provide", it's to empower. Providing is a short term solution... one that must be re-visited every few years. Empowering people to build themselves a future lasts forever.
The Wolfram Cloud sandbox

https://www.wolframcloud.com

and raspberry-pi

http://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi

editions are free. I understand - low power - but still one can at least try it out.
Banks are open on Saturdays...
Open data explained through the medium of blue trousers and chickens
Interest rates are 0% and our economy isn't growing (Q1 '15). I find that scary.

I'm seeing the results of Krugman's philosophy on the ground: Asset prices are way up. Housing in my city is almost as expensive as it was before the '08 crash. For those of us that are lucky enough to own stocks and a house -- three cheers for Krugman, 0% interest rates, and QE!

But the asset economy is outpacing the real economy. Wages are not up. Working age labor force participation is down. Q1 GDP was flat. If you're a working person in the U.S. right now, you're not thriving.

And to me this is a sign that Keynesianism is perhaps played out. We're increasing asset prices, making housing more expensive and increasing inequality, without actually growing the economy.
Yes, of course. I said "on an idea" meaning a product that people think has some value -- but nothing more than this web site design around that idea.
My preferred solution would be 15 mph speed limits, strictly enforced. A car-pedestrian collision is highly unlikely to be fatal below 15-20mph, so it achieves the purpose of making the streets "safe for children".

Some people would still cut through at 15 mph, but it would limit that traffic to the really bad times.

And it would slow down local traffic, who are much more likely to be using the streets at the time children are playing.
Do you understand the difference between choosing to create a connection between the memory and the present observation?

I think you have to examine what you mean by 'ideas'. If you already know the answer, then does that not demonstrate to you why the pattern continues to repeat?
The VPP certificates never expire though, right?
Most of the WinAPI is abstracted out for Store apps as most will be using either .Net or JavaScript for their applications, with the latter essentially being extended/embedded web applications iirc.

I haven't paid much attention to native apps either desktop or mobile. I've built my career understanding distributed systems/communications flows and web based fromt ends... To me most of that is a better experience than what little attempts I've made at front end platform development.
It's a good question, and the only answer I have is that when the old binary fortresses crumble you have to do something to stay relevant, and hope business opportunity will be found. I developed almost exclusively on Windows for almost twenty years, and then one day I looked at the cost of a universal MSDN sub and thought: this is getting nuts. So this is a great development, imo, because MS tools rock. I have been working in Ubuntu now for over three years, and in that time I haven't missed very much, but I have missed Visual Studio.
Well, there's also the fact that something that changes the language behaviour really should be a pragma and not a magic import statement.
Think about it from a business perspective. What makes you more money? Cutting costs, or increasing revenues?

And what is a more sustainable practice to increase revenues: price gouging, or increasing volume/sales?

Now replace these business terms with economic terms. Cutting costs = austerity. Price gouging = raising taxes.

What you want is more people working, more people paying taxes, but keeping taxes at a low enough rate that people still benefit from working, increasing productivity, and keeping their money in the country. It's a maximization curve...

The main problem with austerity is that often the first thing to get slashed is government labour and infrastructure projects, which drastically cuts the size of the workforce, and immediately reduces the amount of taxes coming in, leading to a tax raise, capital flight, and the downward spiral that all economists warn about.

Just like in business there's a certain rate at which loans make sense and a certain rate where they don't. As long as the cost of the loan is less than the interest you'll receive from your investment on said loan (and inflation helps reduce the cost of the loan), you may as well borrow.

"Austerity" in most cases is just a way for predatory lenders to ensure quicker payment, it's by far the worst economic policy.