skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows badly needs this to be a general Development OS. Lot's of developers in the last years run away from Windows to OSX and Linux because of this.

Without Visual Studio, which installs the C++ and .Net dev env, it's a pain to install anything which works out of the box in Windows.

Example: Perl or Python both have an installer but you have to update the system PATH, the console sucks so you can never use it, no simple way to keep it update unless you use the installer again and so on...

If all these goodies are available in a "unixy away" i'm sure Windows will be used by general Developers.
speed bumps sound ok until:

A some one looses a $3k exhaust system on a sports car to them
B Someone dies because of slow ambulance response - Emergency vehicle crews hate speed bumps
The gov't needs to build more roads or provide better mass transit. If main thoroughfares were doing their jobs then we wouldn't have this problem.
I shut off the App platform on my account a few months ago and never looked back. The impact to my user experience has been basically zero, but I feel like I'm much less likely to have my data taken advantage of.
Bingo. Now lets mix and match plug and play best of breed solutions within our core competency for a win-win outcome.
The counties you named as part of the "above average outlier" account for nearly half the population of the state, so I'm not sure that's really, for California, an "outlier" region.

The visualization also excludes the middle (that is, there is no color band centered on the middle, everything is forced into "below" or "above" average); if you view it as "most of the state outside the central/north coast is around the national average, and the central/north coast and a small part of the interior is notably below that" its not really all that surprising of a result.
Distro packages move slower than people would like so they create their own solution.
So ... pretty much perfect?
Great presentation and design skill, you'll def land something. Though if you want big 4 or even big 20 tech companies, then you'll need to show more real code. A good 20k loc app would be nice.
Sure! If you find a site who metrics - traffic, niche etc - that you like, you can send them a request to write about your site/product in exchange for a fee. The fee is set by the owner of the site.
Just once it would be great to read a headline like:

"Traffic congestion spurs realization that enhanced public transit is sorely needed in high density population zones"

instead of:

"City council continues to make short sighted decisions that don't help anyone"
Obviously it doesn't apply to everything. But for something like a public website or mobile app that would be reasonably expected to be easily findable, the fact that it isn't is weird. One project like that makes me wonder what the situation is; several make me suspicious.

For what it's worth, some Googling turned up these links:

http://www.spse-po.sk/web/

https://github.com/mochja/odovzdaj.to

but it shouldn't have been so difficult to find them.
Well the school website definitely exists: http://www.spse-po.sk/

And there is a github repo for his "upload.it" project, which appears to be a collaboration: https://github.com/mochja/odovzdaj.to

The Wire Clothing brand appears to be a work in progress as of the start of this month: https://dribbble.com/shots/2003539-WIRE-Clothing-brand-label, https://dribbble.com/shots/2004870--WIP-Wire-Shirts

And VIDEBY, which was also a collaboration, seems to be a school project only: https://www.google.com/search?q="videby"+site:sk

So his work doesn't seem to be that much oversold, though I agree it would be nice to see more detail than a screenshot.
>You can also drive one-way traffic just to your site.

How does this happen? I'm guessing it would involve payments, is that so?
I can't wait to use this with typescript!
It's free as in beer only. Please do not use it if you care about software freedom, and urge Microsoft to respect you by releasing the source code under a free license.
Only because employers are buying benefits for 1000 people.

I would love a world where the only thing we get from an employer is pay and experience, and where there are no tax breaks for anything except being a poor human.
https://account.live.com/resetpassword.aspx doesnt seem to require my password. I was able to select "I know my password, but can't log in" then chose "I don't have any of these" at which point I was given a form to fill out to have a CS rep contact me.

Give it a try, it might give you access to your account again.
Coffee: Why Less Is More
Part of me is with this councilmember: cities put effort into planning and zoning for the benefits of all citizens, not just those who are driving automobiles.

Another part of me says, traffic has gotten bad because transportation infrastructure is bad, and a big chunk of that is this councilmember's job. So if he's complaining about the traffic, he also ought to be working on some solutions. More convenient public transportation, better bikeways, etc.

I've had this same thought using Waze to avoid afternoon traffic in Silicon Valley when it took me through residential neighborhoods with kids playing in the streets and past schools.. Overall, if you're regularly diverting your commute from designated thoroughfares through residential neighborhoods, wealthy or not, I'm gonna call you a self-absorbed jerk.
Google's Push for Security Leaves Unprepared Businesses Vulnerable to Attack
This seems weird to me. While it's true that I don't want dependencies to mess up my git diff, I can't say that a dependency change has "nothing to do with the project". A change in dependencies almost always means a change in the behavior of my project.

I guess what you're saying is that submodules means that the diffs are better somehow, but I can't remember ever enjoying using submodules. This whole thing seems more like a git problem than anything else.
What exactly do they mean by "multi-process" in the context of an event loop like Node? I'm also not sure about their claims concerning clustering - Node has no SMP capabilities, nor is there any real mechanism for enabling location transparency out of the box.

It's also interesting to note the conflict between the microservices and monolithic application camps. Both are just as adamant that theirs is the future and the other is awful. I'm sympathetic to KISS personally, but is there any real consensus forming?
Yeah, that's what I was pointing out in another comment directly responding to the topic. That's just how work is, or better how life is. You can complain about it or you find a way to handle it. It's not about the 80-hour week but about handling people.
We strongly encourage all users on our platform to nofollow all links.

TrafficGun isn't about SEO/links. Its about gaining real, live visitors.
I just meant that I can occasionally recognize both, e.g. I will hear a chord at the beginning of a song and instantly know "A minor." You're right, only the "A" part is the absolute pitch. I can always recognize the "minor" part, which is just easy relative pitch.
Microsoft has been doing a lot of cool things lately. I hope their new strategy will pay off for them.
Yes. If you find a site who metrics - traffic, niche etc - that you like, you can send them a request to write about your site/product in exchange for a fee. The fee is set by the owner of the site.
Where's your data hosted? I don't trust the US government so rather host my own solution.

This is becoming a big problem for me. A lot of my project information is extremely sensitive so I would prefer a service outside of the US possibly with an encrypted database and would be willing to pay for it. I haven't found one yet...
Does anyone know if it has vim emulation?
YouTube doesn't seem to be banned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440832

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443733

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=www.youtube.com%2F&sort=byDate...
It will evidently be available "later today": https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454156779687937

EDIT: Apparently at 11AM PDT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459632 (aka in an hour-ish)
Well, I got a ticket for it once -- only traffic ticket I've ever received. So not entirely unenforceable. I think most people at least make an effort to not break clearly marked traffic laws. And anyway, it seems tough to complain about people taking a driving shortcut that's perfectly legal.
> Its rude and dangerous to cut through residential neighborhoods to save one or two minutes off of your car trip, and mapping apps shouldn't be so quick to direct you to do so.

No, its not rude to use public roads to get between points connected by those roads, nor is it dangerous provided you are driving in a safe manner (and, if you are driving in an unsafe manner, that's a problem no matter why you are on those roads -- just as much if you are doing it to get to or from your home that is on the road as if you are using it to get between two points that the road happens to connect.)
Working with Koa.js
Thanks - it feels like a missed opportunity within Apple that I'm not sure they're going to get right. I had another friend message this morning saying there is probably a better solution here. Will check out Skillz.
The reason for not including pictures is entirely a legal issue. If a picture is included in the resume and the company decides to not hire that person (despite being qualified), they could sue for discrimination. If the company instead throws out ALL resumes with pictures, they don't ever get sued. Logically, any company that is large enough to have a legal team should be expected to throw out all resumes with pictures on them for this reason.

It is common practice at larger companies now to also obfuscate names of candidates to further eliminate bias and lawsuits.
Yep. If anything like this actually happens, there isn't a chance in hell that money's getting funneled into the pockets of the employees.
So either this extension downloads a hash of your google password and compares against it each time, or it sends a message to Google with whatever password you just typed and they check it there.

Does this also throw warnings for websites where you just use the same password as your google account (which you shouldn't be, I know I know)
Many companies use "open source" or simply "open" in a way that isn't compatible with the open source definition. This is known as open washing. A good, non-Microsoft example is Epic Games and Unreal Tournament 4. They talk a lot about being "open", but the source code and assets are all proprietary.
That clarifies it a lot. Thanks
That's not what I mean by autoconverting.

I meant as in quite literally being able to use something of type Radians in something that expects Degrees and it "just works", and vice versa.

I dislike Go's overuse of "explicit being better than implicit", and this is no exception. It's supposedly to prevent bugs, but it adds so much more verbosity that half the time you're adding more bugs by the additional verbosity than you're fixing via the reduction of magic.
(reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459681)
Encourage instead of require? Any particular reason for that?
The OSI and FSF say otherwise.

http://opensource.org/osd

http://opensource.org/faq#free-software

> "Free software" and "open source software" are two terms for the same thing: software released under licenses that guarantee a certain, specific set of freedoms.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

> “Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”. We sometimes call it “libre software” to show we do not mean it is gratis.
Try https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine - included in Windows 10 now.
Syncthing Test Drive – How to sync your data between desktop, smartphone, server
how long until i can `brew install dotnet`?
Waze is more than information. It provides directions to drivers, with the promise of speeding a commute. It appeals directly to people in a hurry, and it directs them through residential neighborhoods not designed for through traffic.

A reasonable hypothesis would be that greater Waze use would correlate to higher numbers of accidents in residential neighborhoods.
Simply the same as usual: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguis...
Out of the 120 developers where I work, about 5 have active github accounts.

Hiring based on github is ridiculous.
By "Go team", do you mean "Salary paid by Google"? Then no, I believe he works for Canonical...but he's pretty "core" in all other aspects.
If you already know how to build simple things, why not write some books and get publicity if you have the chance? It would only increase demand for things that you are hoping to build in the future. I can build things like crazy and I'm still hoping to write a book...someday...
This reminds me of the highly-untargeted spam emails that I get all the time from people asking if they can write blog posts for me. Naturally, they would contain a lot of links to some other site. The idea has definitely been done before. Think PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, etc. Sounds like an excellent way to get yourself deranked by Google.
Azure users and native app developers on the Windows Store.

With the free W10 upgrades for 7/8 users and a 30% cut of Windows Store sales, they stand to make some money. But they have to get developers back on their side first, otherwise the store stays dominated by garbage.
I haven't tried this yet but as a regular VirtualBox user now on several different platforms, I would suspect that under a situation where you're not depending on the VM for a lot of graphics acceleration or sub-ms-level latency (games, for example, or _possibly_ video editing/composting), this macbook would handle it just fine. So for the uses you're describing she should be happy.

FYI the new version of Office for Mac will be out soon (preview is available now for free) if that's what you're referring to when you say "bad OSX experience."
Submodules should be the right solution. Subtrees are weird as hell even if they require less interaction.

I wonder if anyone in the git team has considered doing any updates on the porcelain for them.

edit: BTW, even though syncs may be separate (and let's be honest, they should be really infrequent). You can do the update/init thing in one command: git submodule update --init --recursive
Exactly — not a big deal, but worth fixing I think.
Am I the only one bothered that they didn't include the space between the "OS" and the "X"?

More importantly, this is huge, but as a Linux developer/user I still have no desire to use .NET on my platform. Maybe Mono has scarred my permanently.
It's what I did at the time, and I did it again now, but it doesn't work. I can change password as many times as I want, but the account is still blocked for no reason.
> "Submit your site(s) to TrafficGun and we'll verify it's metrics - "

s/it\'s/its/r
If we don't want things utilized to their full capacity then we shouldn't build such capacity.

If my ISP wants to sell me a 50 mbps, my usage shouldn't be restricted when I try to actually use 50 mbps.

If a road is built in my town then my usage shouldn't be restricted when I try to actually drive on it.
Yeah, but doing that is easier with bitcoin.
It's in the best interest of the site owner to nofollow, so we figured encouragement is good enough :)
The speed bumps around my old neighborhood have a dip in the median exactly so that ambulances can avoid the bump completely. I was told that it's also a safety concern, as sudden shocks when carrying, say, someone with a spinal injury could actually be life-threatening. (Un)fortunately, it's also perfectly possible for ordinary cars to use the dip, too, and thus not have to slow down really at all.
Yep.

In order to develop for the platform, you need to register your application[0], and your device[1]. Also you cannot even run your own application without getting google's approval[2], which costs $5..

Then, at runtime, the device will first validate that the app you are trying to run was validated, sending the `AppID` to google.

0: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/registration#Registe...

1: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/registration#Registe...

2: https://cast.google.com/publish/
Was that not what OLPC was about, before MS and other corporates got involved?

A small rugged laptop, booting Linux as the kernel, and a UI built entirely out of Python that the kids could modify at whim.
Why call it TrafficGun? Feels like a weird name and carries bad connotations.
Download works from here.
Or, adopt the more common (and also pre-GPS) solution of just designing residential neighborhoods (or refitting existing roads with strategically placed auto-traffic barriers) so that they aren't usable for cut-through auto traffic, but still perfectly usable for ingress/egress and for through traffic by pedestrians/bicycles.

Complaining that people are using public roads that connect their origin with their destination to travel from that origin to that destination is, well, bizarre.
I drink both, although most of the time I choose coffee. A cup of tea doesn't wake me up as much as a cup of coffee.
Just created an account and ran into a bug almost immediately.

When I added my GA account it pulled all of the websites under one specific GA account, I'm assuming the one that has somehow been marked as the default. Within GA I have multiple accounts, but they're all under my one google apps account. I'm unable to see (and thus add) any website that's not grouped within this account.

For example, pretend within GA I have the following groupings:

Personal
Work
Customer 1
Customer 2

Each one of these 'sub accounts' within GA contains the websites I've associated with it. With TrafficGun, it only see's the websites under 'Personal' and not Work, Customer 1 or Customer 2.
As my Dad says, "'Thru' is not a word I recognize. Let's cut through here."
It's an area in California with a lot of black people.

There's more to racism than just this, but in America, racism tends to increase with proximity. More diversity in a community leads to less trust between (and within) ethnic groups.
You have to aggressively seek out opinions and viewpoints that you disagree with. Even if - especially if - they make you feel uncomfortable and annoyed. Read all of the opinions that people say are garbage, make them sick, get downvoted, etc. Whatever your ideology is, find and read as much content as you can from the other side.

You may feel especially weird if you intentionally spend a month or two in an artificially created filter bubble opposite to the ideology you hold now. Feeling anti-cop after the most recent string of incidents, for example? Try making an effort to ignore anything critical of the police and read only sources from or sympathetic to the police for a month or two - you might be very surprised how much this changes your point of view, and find yourself in a better position to see the full picture of an issue.

Have faith that if an opinion really is nonsense, you will be able to realize that on your own, without taking somebody else's word for it. On the other hand, you might find that yourself and the people you agreed with are wrong, or biased, or missing an important perspective.
Currently employers get better rates for their benefits then an individual can on the open market. As such this will open the flood gates for even higher insurance premiums, seems like a wind fall to the insurance providers.

This is similar to the push away from pensions to 401k's in the 70's and 80's. It was supposed to be great for the individuals, more flexibility and control, can take it from job to job. Yet instead it was great for the financial services industry as they got to charge a higher service fees on their mutual funds to more people. The only people to lose out where the employees as the companies got reduced liabilities and payouts and the financial services sector go a large bump in service fees....
Agreed - for example people with HPV are more likely to get cancer seemingly unlinked to their exposure to ionising radiation.

I do however tend to agree with the author that cell-phones causing cancer is hokum.
Smaller ARM servers are an interesting trend, see https://www.scaleway.com/
This Is How Long News Articles Last Online
>> "Without Visual Studio, which installs the C++ and .Net dev env, it's a pain to install anything which works out of the box in Windows."

On Mac don't you need to installed the Xcode command line tools before being able to do most dev stuff?
With results that good it is surprising that you didn't document your benchmark procedures and include them in your article.

I too feel comfortable working with modern CPUs but after performance sensitive projects I benchmark and/or profile to identify what I didn't know. How else can you learn (after listening to all the experts and reading all the documentation)?

As for your feeling it would have taken longer with the "alternative approach", I must again ask for numbers. How do you know which approach would take longer without taking measurements on it? Is that with you taking that approach or an expert with that approach taking it. Are you an expert in that approach, yet humbly avoided stating so in the blog post?

I don't really see them as alternatives. Using all the knowledge you have up front is simply a good design strategy, but once that knowledge is exhausted you can get more through testing empirically.
The site and download are available now at https://code.visualstudio.com/
I don't see how they can. Guix/Nix don't run on Windows, so they can't replace the NPM or PIP or Ruby Gems, first off. But I don't even see anything about Guix/Nix that make them especially capable of unifying Linux package management. (Heck, given that there's two of them, I don't see how either can be said to unify the specific kind of Linux package management they do.)
Rust not Unstable Enough
Visual Studio Code now ready for download
Actually cartoonish website design is getting more common. You can check Dropbox's new website.
Although I applaud the efforts, at the current state that's just sugarcoating the nastiness of code-executing installers.
A package installation should basically just deploy the components of a passive package archive to the filesystem and leave any actions to the package manager.
This solution doesn't even provide a generic interface e.g. to run a query which file would be provided by which package or to which package a specific file in the filesystem belongs to.
The installation process still relies on mostly uncontrollable code execution.
Who Owns Pre-Embryos?
The first gen products ARE spectacular, and they're not 'bad products', just not necessarily great value. i.e. it pays off to wait 1-2 years.

The Macbook for example was $1800, with a $1300 additional cost if you wanted a 64gb SSD. It had a few hours of battery life and very weak performance.

Was it spectacular? Absolutely. But not necessarily amazing value. It eventually turned into a damn powerful little laptop that people bought instead of a MBP for dev work and even lightweight photo/video editing, with 12+ hours of battery life and still really thin.

The rMB kind of feels like that. It's not necessarily the best value right now. A rMBP or MBA is fine, and if you're OS agnostic, the Dell XPS or Asus Zenbook are interesting choices, too. In a few years the MBA won't have gotten any updates and the rMB gets sourced with a faster chip, drops $100 in price and adds some battery life, and probably comes out with a beefier 14" version. Then it'll be an interesting buy.
Is this only for students in the UK ?
Sure it's rude. It's also okay for opinions on the matter to differ.
"The number of Bitcoin users in Argentina is relatively small; it barely registers on most charts of global Bitcoin usage."

That's the very definition of not disrupting.