skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are people interested in a lower-cost option? I find myself making the same meals (simple salads, chicken & rice), and these do not cost a lot per meal, certainly not $12. It would be nice to order $3-5 meals of things I would normally cook but just don't have time for, which would be appealing to the parents of the world. That is something I would set up a meal plan for so I never had to buy groceries or cook, but still receive high-quality (albeit basic) food.
The difference is the Microsoft implementation is probably going to be much better quality and better documented. Also, you can't compare Microsoft of ten years ago with the Microsoft of today.
It does work on touchscreens! You can also pinch and spread your fingers to zoom out and see everything at once.
Typical people need to sleep for 25%-30% of each day, it is hardwired into our biology. I think that "strive to be happy 100% of the time" can be turned into an excellent excuse to sleep deprive yourself, in order to avoid making hard decisions about what to prioritize in your life.

You can apply the same logic to your job. Everybody needs to earn their keep. That's a fact of life. People that already want an excuse to forgo their live for the sake of work will take it as confirmation of what they want to hear.

Not to say that what you say is wrong, just to point how it can be use it to rationalize if taking literally and/or out of context.
But raising the min to $15 is a 107% bump, so prices would have to rise by +/- 27%, before you factor on the increase in Social Security costs. The employer contrib to SS is 6.2%, and Medicare is 1.45%. So a $15 min wage actually costs the employer an additional $8.60/hour.

An even easier and more insightful way is to carve up a Big Mac. In the US, the average price for a Big Mac is $4.79.

Overhead: 30% or $1.44
Food Cost: 25% or $1.20
Labor: 25% or $1.20
Franchise Royalties: 13% or $.62
Profit: 7% or $.34

Now a Big Mac isn't as profitable as fries or soda, but those percentages are across the entire menu. Not a lot of profit for a burger...

I think a lot of devs here are not seeing the overall economics of the fastfood world, and perhaps feeling a bit of guilt due to the difference in their salaries versus the fastfood workers...
Salesforce is listening to takeover offers
Meanwhile, Microsoft has gone on to open source core components of their offerings (with no signs of slowing down) and Apple (not surprisingly) is locking down developers even further with requiring signed drivers by default (I think -- not confirmed). Amazing how things can shift.
> In other news, GCC continues to fall apart at a brisk pace, with literally every distro shipping slightly different versions.

Heh, this is actually true. Clang/llvm are rapidly replacing GCC, largely due to this issue (though performance plays a part as well).
A ton of carbon sounds like a whole lot, but according to the EPA (http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/refs.html), a typical coal-fueled power plant puts out 3.8 million metric tons of carbon per year. Kinda puts it in perspective.
I'm guessing it remains firmly off the table.
Curmudgeon time: reflow and zoom were probably my favorite features of the original Motorola Droid browser. There were zoom ( +, - ) buttons in the lower-right to zoom in and out -- accessible one handed, with your thumb, none of that pinch-to-zoom nonsense. And the text reflowed on zoom!

Further iterations of Android slowly stripped out these features -- first the buttons went, in favor of pinch-to-zoom, then reflow in favor of... a worse user experience.

Most sites with a lot of horizontal text (hello, HN!) are hard to read in portrait mode without constantly scrolling. Phones are faster than ever, I don't see why computational requirements would be a good reason for disabling reflow. Turn off all those damn animated-transparent-rounded transitions and give me back my reflow.

As far as I can tell, none of the major mobile OSes (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) ship with text reflow in the browser by default. Well, except HTC Android, according to the article. And that is maddening.
It is the platform not the device. It is also about having our data securely hosted in the cloud for use on all of our devices. I think this is a brilliant strategy.

Off topic: I am volunteering to help with computer classes at the library in my small town. This morning we talked about training people to view devices as not being so important, instead keeping their digital lives on one of the two cloud platforms we will probably support: Google (drive, docs, pictures) and Microsoft Office 365. I think that we are suggesting the right choice for people who are just learning to use computers and the Internet.
Indeed, we're hoping that PolyBrowser becomes a platform for experimentation in new experiences on the web... We're not tied down to the old "tabbed" paradigm, which opens up some very exciting possibilities!
By not needing serving and dining room equipment or expensive locations. An operation like this can be set up virtually anywhere a city will grant a permit for, as long as there is a reasonable density of people around. Plus, there are plenty of successful traditional restaurants that don't sell alcohol, though that may vary on a regional basis.
I think you're right that it's possible, but I just want to point out that most restaurant-type operations operate at about 30% food cost. So if you want to charge $3, your food needs to cost $1.

Delivery, which is included in the OP, is also an economy of scale. It doesn't make sense to do a delivery run just to make a $1 profit.
"but there NuGet at least appears at least as powerful as similar options on other platforms"

That seems unlikely (i.e. can we upgrade the whole OS with NuGet?), but it does look like it is, at least, aware of some of the problems an actual package manager solves.
I agree with you completely. Even our work schedules are still based on the mandated daylight times which were created so that factories wouldn't have to keep their lights on for too long.
I wonder how they support FireFox extensions -- I was under the impression that FireFox extensions have free reign over the entire browser.
I have my monitor calibrated for photo editing. I'm not going to mess with the brighhtness and contrast because some site is using a hard to read colour combination.

If it's a site that's worth reading I'll overide the CSS with Stylish otherwise I'll just not bother reading the site. It's funny how many sites fall into the later category.
Later day SUN yes.

But 1996-2005 SUN made Java the #1 name in the enterprise and education space back in the day.
what I really want is to be able to navigate the web, as 3D stacks of elements with writing on their faces, with a Tron-bike
How is this different from Little Caesars or Dominos business model, except being app-only instead of phone-call based? My local dominos barely has a pick-up window as it's storefront. There's always a delivery guy pulling in or out.
Without having it thought out carefully I suggest the following. The judge's statement is impossible, i.e. it is not possible that the prisoner will be hanged on any day and is surprised by this. From this impossible statement - similar to a wrong premise - the prisoner draws the false conclusion that he will not be hanged at all and is then obviously surprised by someone knocking on his door.
To be fair, it's not hard to get a signing key for Apple (anyone with $99/yr can get one). And it's not just drivers -- ALL apps must be signed by default.
Microsoft expects to make an increasing portion of their revenue from Azure PAAS. Visual Studio has a button to deploy to Azure. Amazon has nothing like an IDE and language/runtime to compare with this.

Even the Economist had an article last week about how the EU countries lament their lack of platform prowess.
Microsoft Announces Project Oxford Face, Speech and Vision APIs for Smarter Apps
> Your current posting style didn't work for your last account. It doesn't seem to be working for this account.

Yes, I was an asshole on my "Dewie" account, and recently on Dewie2 as well. But go over the posts I presented again - was I really being an asshole? Or did I just have opinions and priorities that people were in such disagreement with that they chose to use the "I don't like this - Downvote!"-artillery? Come on. At least address my specific points when I go to the trouble of typing them out. Instead of just playing Dr. Phil.

> It doesn't seem to be working for this account.

Yes. Thanks for underlining that for the powers that be. Well, it's not like I was hiding so who am I to complain.

> Do you think this is working for you?

Clearly, my problem is being a glutton for punishment in that I keep coming back to this poisonous community. :) It's not like the assholes on this forum are helping me be less of an asshole. (And no, you're not one of the assholes, just speaking of a subset here.)
Most will and do, judging by the amount of fast food outlets that still are in operation, and still hire people, despite the numerous wage hikes over the years.

Sounds like you just worked for an asshole. Also sounds like you guys eventually adapted to the wage hikes (I'm assuming he's still in business?).

Of course no one's happy when things become more expensive. Here they just announced a new tax on gas (making it as expensive as before the price of oil went to shit), and a new tax on booze. Guess what - people still drive, and drink beer (hopefully not at same time).
Im very curious what the HN community thinks this looks like. Any thoughts? Past research? Good examples?
is there any way to attach the debugger to an existing node process instead of launching one separately?
Pricing transparency is one of the nice things that has come out of the mobile revolution. I think it'll become more and more common.

For an alternative vision, Chicago's Alinea restaurant (with 3 Michelin stars, one of the greatest restaurants in the world, possibly the greatest in America) has gone from traditional reservations to a ticket-based model. You buy tickets in advance for your meal, like you would a sporting event or a concert. Tickets aren't refundable, but they're transferable. That's a fascinating model, at least for a restaurant that can be jampacked full with wait times running out weeks or months in advance.
Twitter needs new leadership
Show HN: CALX, a tactile, gestural RPN calculator for iOS
I've never been more addicted to an app than when Secret first came out. It was all the rage in SF. I had to force myself to delete it after a few weeks in order to get back to productivity. I completely understand the hype. Personally, I feel this is a story about poor execution. They changed the nature of the app so significantly over time that it lost its appeal and never expanded successfully beyond the bay area. Shame.....it was so much fun and they are such a talented team.
Show HN: Noodles, a proudly heptagon-free iOS game
Owners are limited by franchise agreements to what they can charge, as well as limited by what the market will bear. As wages got pushed lower and lower in fast food, QSC declined dramatically. Owners have already invested a lot in automation (steps that ironically have damaged quality), and there's only so much blood you can squeeze out.

The issue isn't that owners will fare worse, but that raising the min wage while it makes us feel good won't necessarily help lower income workers. Doubling the salary of an entry level position will only reduce the number of entry level positions. And as I'm sure your experience in fast food illustrated, there's some people who aren't even worth paying min wage. Except for a few management folks, it shouldn't be a long term job or career.
Who created Caitlin Snow on the Flash? According to DC Comics, Nobody
Education and high-skilled job training.

That's not free, though. Even if you subsidize all the tuitition, there are study materials, the opportunity cost of attending classes, and possibly physical costs in getting to/from them and so on. Small costs like this add up to significant sums for people who earn small amounts.
Don't skip the comments. I think there is more there than in the article, honestly.
Is there not some comparison of two similar roles and metrics for those roles? (e.g. an engineering firm in the US produces specs for a bridge in X person-hours vs the Y person-hours it takes a firm in the UK.)
That was part of Zed Shaw's "Rails is a Ghetto" rant years ago, that the best Rails developer was proud that his application only crashed like 80 times per minute.
How inconsiderate of me! :-)
I think Twitter and Snapchat/Yik Yak are in different industries.

Snapchat and Yik Yak are messaging applications, so they attract kids and friends who want to communicate with one another privately. Problem is, messaging apps don't seem to be revenue generators anymore.

Because Tweets are all public and searchable, I would argue that Twitter is a publishing platform. They attract content producers who want public attention: press, celebrities, politicians, brands, etc.--and the audiences who want to hear from these folks. So they should be able to drive a lot of revenue from ads.
Or... eliminate the loopholes, generate a flat tax, put limits on un/under-utilized assets and reserves corporations can hold as well as reducing foreign shelters... from there, limit distribution of taxes as a percent, with 25% to the federal gov't, 25% to states/territories based on population, 10% to states/territories based on land mass and the remaining 40% as a check to every citizen that filed for taxes the prior year.

By creating a flat tax, and flat payout, you can eliminate huge swaths of welfare and entitlements in favor of a consistent system with much less bureaucracy. In order for this to work, you have to eliminate corporate taxes in favor of ensuring that companies pay out to owners/shareholders who in turn pay taxes on that income. With a flat payout, you can also reduce retirement programs as they stand.
Argentinian here, nope, no disruption at all, I actually will argue that due our history and high volatility of pesos people only trust in-hand hard cash dollars, anything else is smoke & mirrors :D
I try to maintain an objective distance from my clients. I refuse to do on-site work. I announce hours or days of unavailability, not request time off. I have a few subcontractors that do a modicum of work for me--though their productivity is certainly appreciated and I pay them for it, I'm more interested in the image it creates that it's not just me. I specifically don't reply to emails right away. I maintain separate servers from them and refuse to accept passwords to their production servers (consequentially, because I can't just "go fix it" for them, I think it's made their other developers more cautious about testing).
I agree with the feeling. I'm very frustrated that Swift has not been open sourced into LLVM. Apple is in a position to take the wind out of Microsofts sails, but it feels that they're more focused on profits than on what their developers are asking for.
I'm a full-time iOS developer and want to share my perspective on this news. The developers who create those amazing apps on iOS are not going to fall for this. I'm one of those developers, who pays very close attention to detail to make pixel perfect apps that I'm proud to put my signature on. I will not accept my brand being introduced on Windows or any other platform using a glorified code generator. If I want to bring an app to Windows, I would learn the platform, go "all in" and make my app as perfect on Windows as it is on iOS. This would require me to dig into all the SDK docs, understand the platform capabilities, learn the native APIs, deal with the challenges of supporting different form factors, and a lot more. There is simply no shortcut to a great app, and a developer who is proud of his app would not release something that a machine generates. A great app is not one that has been thrown together using abstracted APIs and a code generator. A great app is one in which the developer has written and/or analyzed every line of code to maximize the aesthetics and performance on the platform it is running on. Windows' code conversion isn't going to encourage the really good apps to migrate, although it might entice some cheap knockoffs or poorly designed apps to ship an equally poorly designed experience on Windows. So bottomline, I don't expect apps like Instagram to suddenly appear on Windows because of this.

Also, developers don't avoid Windows because it lacked a code conversion tool. If all it involved was learning a new language or porting some code, developers would do it, just like they learned to go from Objective C to Swift, or all the evolution of Cocoa Touch through the years.

Developers avoid Windows for far more complex, intangible reasons that go way beyond a code converter. There are all kinds of perceptions about Windows and Windows users that simply will not change because of this tool. The iOS developers I know will shrug off this announcement, and continue shipping their apps on iOS. I admire Microsoft for overcoming the technical challenges of creating this tool, but sadly they have not overcome the perception and mindset challenges of a dieing platform.
If QC is not possible for some new underlying principles (not lack of engineering capability) then it would mean our understanding of QM is fundamentally wrong. This could be the case (we've been wrong in physics many times) even though QM has been verified to more digits of precision than any other physical theory.

Trying to build computers in this case and diagnosing the errors then are likely to give us the data necessary for the discovery of the new, better theory.

Now, if it is possible in principle but not practical to engineer - that's what we need a golden age of engineering research to find out.
Not sure if I was unclear, I was referring to NuGet package management for development, comparing it to e.g. similar systems such as npm.
Why You Shouldn't Dismiss Hypermedia in Your API Design
On desktop you have more control - you can firewall, code inject, rewrite dlls, crack, cheatengine stuff and so on. Root means ownership of your device. And not being confined to a walled garden ... so while a future in which root is not used is terrific, a future in which root does not belong to the user is terrifying ...
I remember so many people being so high on it when it launched, with several friends all raving about how fun/addicting it was, then just poof it disappeared from conversation.

Pure speculation, but I think trolls/frauds took it over. I say this as a Secret troll myself. I knew the odds of the data (linked to my FB account) becoming public was too high to post real secrets, so I used to just experiment with what got people liking or leaving comments instead. Which was amusing.. until I could tell a lot of people had started doing the same. So I stopped using it.
Or you can use a system designed to accomodate the occasional failure like Akka (running on the JVM they seem to hate so much) or Erlang.
Shameless repost since my earlier post sank like a stone.

There's also a promo site[1] that explains a little more about CALX if anybody's interested, also by all means please let me know if you'd like a promo code :)

[1] http://protonome.com/apps/calx/
Marc Andreessen probably stoked Microsoft's paranoia when he said "[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers"[1]

1. http://www.wired.com/2012/04/ff_andreessen/2/
You interact with it every day if you use a cell phone. The control plane of the nodeb/enodeb(or "cell towers") and further into the core network in UMTS/LTE is using SCTP. Control messages for voice calls and SMS is carried a top of SCTP. Control plane interconnect between carriers for roaming is done over SCTP.

(Though there's still plenty of gear still using TDM or ATM)
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And the economies that have followed closer have overall done better than the ones that didn't. Go figure. I mean, we now have the actual evidence.
When it comes to market speculation, non-news is published quite frequently. Often time it comes in the form of stories that summarize what happened that week.
Papertrail joins SolarWinds for $41M
> Oh, and remember that Chrome on iOS is not Chrome at all, but Apple WebView, which on iOS8 is supposed to be the same as Safari. That’s because you are not allowed to install other rendering engines on iOS.

What exactly does this mean: Does Apple review and reject apps that have a rendering engine, or does iOS have some magic to prevent other rendering engines from working?
You will... in the year two thouuuuusand.
Well, Greece has done austerity. And now their debt is higher than before. You don't do austerity in the middle of a depression.
I'm fine with people exiting the market in that situation. They're not providing jobs any more, but their departure leaves underserved demand that can be met by someone else.
I Made an Installer for Visual Studio Code Linux
> WSUS just caches updates locally

New updates do supersede others though, if they're marked to do so from Microsoft. That should cover at least some of the .Net point release updates and the like.
Well, Argentina's currency controls are legendary for how awful they are. If you want a lesson in how NOT to manage monetary policy, look at Argentina since about 1900. The country was the richest in the world at the time, but since then has alternated between boom and bust thanks to its disastrous monetary policy. Evading the government's currency controls is a way of life for Argentinians.
* No confidentiality. All communications are sent plaintext. They plan to "add support in the future when solid approaches emerge".

* Non-repudiable. Everything you send is signed with the public key on your GitHub account.

* Uses SHA1. (via the ghsign NPM module)

* Uses mDNS and BlueTooth LE and a gossip topology algorithm, so I'm not sure what would prevent a random third party from eavesdropping.

I would hesitate to market this as "secure".
> never expanded successfully beyond the bay area

This seems to be something of a meme.

The Bay Area is a truly unique and bizarre place. People are incredibly busy and tech-savvy, and they're willing to spend way more on minor conveniences than people elsewhere.

It seems like lots of companies raise on their explosive growth in and around the SV community. It may extend to people with similar demographics in other cities, but it's still a niche.

I'm also thinking of all those gourmet snack-delivery companies, laundry-delivery, etc. Those might make a few million in revenue some day, but they're never going to have high margins or universal appeal.
I use http://hnapp.com/rss?q=score%3E10 to keep an RSS feed of HN submissions with score > 10.

The issue for me is purely one of volume. As much as I tend to like many of the "long tail" submissions on HN, even with the filtered 10+ feed I ended up getting over 70 items in the last 24 hours period, which makes for quite a bit of reading already. Any more and I'd be completely overwhelmed (I'll probably have to adjust the filter criteria in the future as HN inevitably becomes more popular).
reminds me of https://youtu.be/c3PUYoa1c9M?t=55s