skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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'highly un-targeted' is the keyword in your comment. With TrafficGun, there's no spamming ppl with unwanted requests. Every user on the platform is amenable to cross-promotion.

As for PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews etc - our focus is primarily on cross-promotions b/w bloggers who vet each other.

Finally, re:Google - We encourage all users on our platform to nofollow all links. TrafficGun isn't about SEO/links. Its about gaining real, live visitors.
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I've used those sites before. This seems different in that they're not gaming advertising but actually exchanging like-kind content. Google doesn't derank for that.
The part that look truly interesting? The inspector!

http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/manual/tour.html
You're in the minority:

"Only 13 percent of people worldwide actually like going to work"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2013/10...
Seems like a great feature for Google for Work, although I doubt most folks who get phished would install this extension voluntarily.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

This is the embrace stage, guys. Don't fall for it.
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how about Databetes?
This is just a link to a tweet with no additional information. Extensive discussion of this product on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459364
Yeah there's also no mention about the tax implications of this stuff which is nontrivial, I suspect the example of paying $50,000 and benefits vs. $57,500 and no benefits ignores the tax implications in a way that doesn't help the employee but perhaps does the business.
I just downloaded and looked inside the package. It's based on Atom.
Ever since Nadella took over at Microsoft, such news items are becoming more and more frequent. Ten years ago, my first reaction at such a headline would have been to check my calendar if it's April 1st.

Microsoft has come a long way from the company that everybody loved to hate. IMHO, they still have a long way ahead of them, but it's nice to see they seem to be serious about it.

With Ballmer at the helm, I had the impression he didn't really know how to handle the rise of mobile devices and cloud services. Nadella seems determined to really change Microsoft from the old Windows-and-Office monopoly to something new.
Or that cities need to get more dense and friendlier toward pedestrians and bikes.
Curious, if they just launched cross platform .net core, why didn't they just .net? Why typescript?
Obviously I wish we lived in a world where health care wasn't coupled to employment, but I don't think the USA is adopting single payer any time soon so I don't really have high hopes.

However, one practical thing that I find infuriating is the 401k/IRA system. It's absurd to me that if your employer doesn't offer a 401k there's a whole category of tax advantaged retirement saving that's off limits to you, and you're stuck to the IRA contribution limits (and income limits).
Every time I visit, say, Macdonalds, I try to figure out how much it would cost to pay everyone in the logistic chain decently. E.g. let's suppose we agree to give 5% extra to Macdonalds at the register to distribute to its employees in some equitable fashion. So my $12 order (two happy meals and a burger, say) costs me an extra $0.60. <10 people are processing something like 200 orders per hour (I suspect it's more like 5 people and 400 orders, I'm guesstimating), so that's $12 for each of them. But let's assume there are another ten people in the logistic chain. So that's $6/h for each of them.

Now imagine the flow-on effect to the rest of the economy if people in those horrible jobs had some kind of living wage. I suspect not only would these workers be $6/h better off, I'd probably be better off too.
This would be less of a problem if companies didn't all feel they had to be located in Santa Monica and West LA. Maybe the head office absolutely has to be on the Westside because of the cool address, but what about satellite offices around the city, closer to where people live?

Or better yet, just evolve the corporate culture and embrace working remote.
There's also a fascinating (in my opinion) write-up on the wire protocol, which was presumably reverse-engineered for this library: https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2#protocol-description
The download http://code.visualstuido.com just went live. It is based on Atom.
"Node is nimble; for example, we advise our clients to kill & quickly restart when their applications enter an unexpected-error state. You can’t do this with a runtime that takes minutes to properly start and warm-up."

Hmmm. I'm running tiddlywiki (node.js app) on an ARM, and it probably takes a good ~30 seconds to start up.. Not good for an application that weighs in at 20k lines of code, 3/4 of which isn't even javascript. Worse yet, it has noticeable delays during operation, including about a 15 second delay if it hasn't been accessed in a few hours. I might blame it on a big dataset, but frankly it has less than a 100 tiddlers, and everthing is hosted on a SSD. This on a machine that generally is quite responsive, and capable (although its about 1/5 as fast as my desktop in some benchmarks I ran). It sure doesn't take that long to start apache/php on the same machine and start serving pages.
Also linux developer/user and I'd crawl over broken glass to have a reliable C# runtime on Linux, it's my absolute favorite language.
the irony of this is that if ms were to leave powershell open to run any scripts from anywhere at any time, they'd be ridiculed for lax security policies.
With this specifically - none - but I have bought weed in the past that was quite definitely adulterated with something that ruined a game of poker. Everyone sweating bullets and shaking. Sore jaw in the morning.

So - I know that the "broken glass in X" is DEA FUD, but idiot street dealers don't necessarily think in the same terms as you and I.

Also - if you're synthesising your own chems, cost isn't an issue, you're just buying reagents.
And how is it enforced? Do they ask "where are you going"? Can you answer "none of your business"? I never lived in the US but I refuse to abandon my mental image of the free country I always thought it was.
Uggh. Speed bumps and more stop signs. I read somewhere once that nothing does more to cause car pollution than the innocent looking stop sign.
...if you are driving in an unsafe manner, that's a problem no matter why you are on those roads

So, then, let's assume that apps like Waze do cause a larger number of unsafe drivers to cut through residential areas. How do we fix that problem?
This is what worries me. What if we all start using these tools and then new management comes in (or if it was the plan all along) and poisons the well.
codenvy.com - because java. there is full java support, navigate, autocomplete, outline and even java debugger.
This is in a sense an argument that rebuts decades (probably more) of urban design based on classism. Good cities are designed to have arteries for cars and humane, walkable residential streets for people to live on. Routing volumes of traffic intended for the arteries to residential streets is abusive.

Your argument won't win in the end anyways. If Waze continues causing problems, residential city districts will just vote to put up "no through traffic" signs and start ticketing offenders. Or, like Chicago, they'll keep a strict grid, break traffic up with one-way streets, and put diode-like partial cul de sacs at the intersections of residential streets and arteries.

This idea is pretty old; Christopher Alexander writes about it in _A Pattern Language_.

I'm a little sensitive about this issue; I live in a decidedly un-affluent part of the Chicago area (I'm on one of the least expensive blocks in Oak Park; the block immediately adjacent to mine to the east is part of the Austin neighborhood. We have kids playing on our street all day, and, because we're right up on two very busy streets, we get a pretty regular flow of total assholes doing 40MPH down our street for shortcuts.
For a quick example, take C:

typedef rad_f float;
typedef degree_f float;

Although in C there's no way that I know of to do implicit conversion between the two.

The closest thing I've found to what I mean is C#'s implicit cast system:

http://nathan.ca/2014/02/type-rich-programming/
Nice idea. Maybe a WordPress plugin that could search for identical text strings and present an interface with options for how to handle the content (301, delete, etc.)? a quick search for "WordPress duplicate content plugin" didn't reveal much.
Ec2dns 2.0 – DNS for EC2 instances
That's a great example of a mod that just plainly repairs a deficiency in the original game! I was in fact struggling to think of one.

It's clear that this game is abandoned and there's no further support coming from Westwood Studios for it, not to mention that it won't be coming available on Steam any time soon. As troubled as this analogy is, ...

I think it's still clear that in a hypothetical scenario where Steam gets the rights to distribute RA2 and Westwood (EA? who owns the rights to C&C series now?) has still washed their hands of support for it long ago, it would make sense for Steam to give the mod authors the option of sending back some percent of the gross (1-10%) to the rights holders for the game. Sort of a "vote with your dollars" kind of thing.

Of course if we are really talking about sending "extra money" to EA to say thanks, as a mod author or gamer I'm probably going to need to vomit right away, but replace EA with some other hypothetical not-shitty company (the ghost of Westwood) and I think you've got a deal.

This whole scenario just makes me reflect on the relatively recent development of Apple deciding that they can't allow any apps in their phone store that mention support for any products competing with Apple Watch (misfit, fitbit, etc)

The way this played out just goes to show who really owns the greatest share of the attention of Valve and Steam (it's the game companies, not the mods or the community.)
Interesting approach. Link here:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/pk-intro.html
I agree with grandparent. It's rude to cut through residential streets just to bypass traffic. Residential streets are there to support the activity of those residents, which includes getting to and from their homes, walking across the street to talk to a neighbor, leading normal healthy lives including allowing children to use the street to play or ride bikes.

There are other streets designed to carry traffic. If there is a lot of traffic, you need to wait in line like everyone else. If you need to get somewhere on time, leave early to avoid traffic.
Probably the right answer, but that sounds like multiple orders of magnitude more difficult than putting up some signs and/or posting a cop to write some tickets. Also, I assume the people who live in those neighborhoods would want still want their houses easily reachable by car.
I have been drinking mate more lately. I find it makes me feel more alert without the jitters that espresso brings.
Interestingly, owning the market in developer tools and programming languages is how Microsoft got their start in the 70s/very early 80s. Not only is this strategy a reasonable one (at least to my uneducated outside opinion), it's starting to look exactly like the one they had before MS-DOS (and that eventually worked out OK for them, though it is still much less certain that Azure or something like it can play the role of DOS in this story).

Whatever it is, I'm not sure I've actually been excited about what Microsoft is doing since Windows 2000, and that's starting to change.
But aren't Store apps essentially built on the Win32 API? I remember an article basically saying '.NET didn't win' for that development. I could be recalling wrong, and I'm sure there are wrappers and such, but still...
> Unifying multiple distinct package managers is a fool's errand.

I'm really hoping that isn't the case.
Does it include the source? And how liberal is the license?
Lets see if a comment works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p5uDf9i_Yc&feature=youtu.be
Eh, the article is focusing on the trends. If the trend continues, that's where we could well end up. Of course, right now, it's a "tell us which government-approved program you want us to contribute to," in the same way that my alcoholic father refused to pay his child support, but would instead paternalistically pay my mom's rent. But eventually as the burden to understand social insurance gets shifted over to employees, it could easily go that way.

People will look up and say, well we have this huge 'benefits' apparatus whose only real purpose is to manage the social costs of health care when it looks like people are managing just fine without it.

You and I might look at the apparatus as overbearing, but the reality of it is, most people just don't have the time, patience, or inclination to care about their health, and it imposes huge social costs. When Grandma starts losing the little quality-of-life she has left, rather than an honest discussion, we have people saying, "keep her alive at all costs!" A big part of the health care infrastructure we have is structurally set up to deal with people making irrational demands of it.

Once people start to understand health and how to think about it and pay for it, there's no reason why things like the individual mandate can't go the way of the dodo.
For a moment I thought Microsoft is releasing a Linux distro with .NET sdk pre-installed.

It would've been great if the author knew what 'distribution' means in this context.
They pull you over, and if you don't live in the immediate vicinity, you get a ticket. It's happened to me several times in Oak Park, and I live there!

You could say "none of your business". You'll get the ticket, and, if its really unjustified, you can go fight it in traffic court.
Madden NFL is a counterexample. That game came out in 1988. Not many software companies can say they've been working on the same software series since 1988. Will Dropbox still be relevant in 2035?

Madden NFL is not the only example of a "safe", long-running game series (franchise). Wikipedia has a list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_video_...
Contributing to a discussion about how to ameliorate the situation would be more welcome than "that's just how it is" dismissal.
I have also hired a lot of devs, I love it when they have a github account, especially those with less experience or as interns.
> Unfortunatelly, Los Angeles is built with 3-4 choke points to get from... San Fernando Valley to... the west side and mid-wilshire.

Public transit in Southern Cali is pretty good if you work in downtown LA.
> Waze is more than information.

Nope. In this respect (transportation routes), it is quite literally and merely information. It does not make promises.
Show HN: GitHub Star Growth Tracker
Great markup - I especially enjoy that `<main>` is used for only (some wrapping `<div>`s and) an `<h1>` which conveys the authors main call: "This summer I’d like to be your Intern (June - September)"!
Seeing as how he is just finishing high school yet, I'm guessing he will have more code on his resume by the time he's looking for a job in 4 years. Although, with the speed of things, who knows what will be the hot skills then!
That works. Well, that is the video that gives me the STOP SPAMMING message.
>restart

This isn't going to happen. MS is tied deeply into restarting due to how it loads libraries and other issues. Unless they write a new OS from scratch and give up on legacy compatibility, well, don't hold your breath.
Employee benefits will become irrelevant if and only if (1) the government removes the tax advantage of providing certain benefits to employees over providing the value of those benefits to employees in cash, and (2) the government resolves the market failures innate to certain types of insurance. The ACA went a long way to resolving (2) for health insurance, but similar forces are at play in the life insurance and disability insurance markets.
The Anti-Pigeonhole Conjecture
Yeah the real test will be, is this thing supported 5 years from now? There's a nice history of projects like Silverlight that get a lot of buzz and love early on but languish and are killed a few years later when management and priorities change.
Dear Microsoft,

Please stay away from Linux. It is windows which converted me to Linux.

Sincerely,
A happy Linux User.
Yeah, it really is the employers cutting benefits to avoid cutting the headline salary numbers that the vast majority of people focus on when they negotiate.
I don't expect to see one for professional devs, a lot of time what we develop we aren't allowed to share. Or, if its a side project, its not necessarily open source.

However, for college grads, or those without a CS degree and transitioning from a bootcamp, a github account really sets you apart and is becoming a must.
Awesome. Same guy behind this library: http://www.ractivejs.org/
A quick look at the docs and it doesn't yet support extensibility/plugins, though they say in the FAQ that they are working out a plan for that. Right now there is an external task runner that exposes the file name of the current buffer and some other data.

I look forward to seeing what they do on the plugin front. And hopefully they will be able to upstream performance changes to Electron and Atom and hopefully more.

Competition in the editor + dev tools space is always good.
Building OCaml with Redo
I think a speed bump solves your problem.

When I have to commute into the West Side I have a 1.5-2 hour drive ahead of me. Unless I use Waze, and I can cut that down to less than an hour. There is nothing quite like traffic in Los Angeles.

Also, you are assuming Los Angeles was designed correctly and anyone that lives here for longer than a month can tell you it has some serious traffic problems because of urban sprawl.
Wow yes, apt-get install dotnet anyone?

Should Microsoft provide a few common platform install methods?
We're Entering a Golden Era of Quantum Computing Research
Probably prices will not be doubled, but even more jobs will be transferred to China / other countries. And the Valley will win as well due to increased demand for automation.
This may very well be reflective of my ignorance of that area, but would a bicycle not suffice for an 8 to 10 mile trip? If an average speed of a bicycle is say 10mph, then you've already cut your time by two hours!

Of course.. I believe most American cities and roadways are not well designed for commuter cyclists. Perhaps we need a serious look into the bike highways of Copenhagen.
However, English is my first language, and I thought exactly the same.
If it does I can't find where to enable it.
It may be NIMBYism in LA, but it's not NIMBYism in Chicago, which is a giant city of neighborhoods --- with very diverse demographics --- made of residential streets connected by high-traffic arteries. I used Waze for a little while (I stopped because it didn't work very well for me) and it routinely had me cutting through residential neighborhoods, which really did feel wrong to me.
> all EU computers mandated to run OpenBSD

That kind of social change would require a change in the econo-political system.
Wow there seems to be a lot of negative comments here. Do I sense a bit of jealousy?
Visual Studio Code is already built on top of a number of open source projects we've created or are contributing to, including the Roslyn compiler and language tools, OmniSharp, Typescript, and GitHub Electron. We are still in an early stage and we're evolving our architecture - and we'll look at what we open source, and how we do it, as part of that.
Your advice reminds me of advice Al Franken has seemingly taken in his political career so he can break through his image of being a class-clown.

A WaPo article I randomly dug up: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2014/10/24/48765a5e-5...
Microsoft ppls please release a windows phone emulator for OS X and Linux. You will make my year if I don't have to dual boot anymore :)
I must agree with even though I don't want to. Microsoft seems to legitimately changing its behavior.

Personally, I still want more. An open source editor would have been nice. Many good text editors are open source Vim, Emacs, Atom, Notepad++ entering this area with less community seems like an unneeded difficulty.
https://import.io/
Telomerase Therapies in Our Future
The code that will allow the software to run on Linux and Mac OS has not yet been built. “It will be a few months before you can get your hand on this." -Somasegar
I seriously can't get too excited about MSFT technologies because

- they have an history of discarding products on a whim,

- playing the strategic game and stifling smaller competitors,

- having a new CEO doesn't mean it's a new company. The people are still there, there are still fragmentation and silos, and the attitude.
The site is ... not working? I am getting literally 0 value from the site.

Not really interested in the app either if I don't know what it does looking at the site ...
What makes "3a. Cross-Promote" something other than a zero-sum game? Does it presume that most people have more time to devote to reading stuff online?
I really don't think the people in these jobs understand the whole picture. I already typically won't establish a McDonald's already because prices have gotten so high. It's cheaper to cook at home. If wages double and prices raise less people are going to eat there and hence less people who are employed.

These people should be focused on how they can increase their long term earning potential instead of helping to further squeeze out the middle class.
I've been using Node.js/io.js on ARM for a number of projects and have been pretty happy with it. For example using a cheap development board to create a build status light: https://github.com/tantalic/build-light. I'm just starting a new project where I am going to give Go a try for ARM development which I suspect may give even better results.
Zero-Overhead Metaprogramming
This is awesome. A tolerable IDE for linux. From microsoft, of all companies. Awesome.
FYI, a voxel (volumetric-pixel) is a 3D rendering primitive which is a competitor of the polygon (yes there is other primitives like elipsoide[0]).
A point cloud carrying whatever augmented information isn't in itself a voxel model. Ultimately, a voxel is a voxel when it is rendered as such: when this is the 3D primitive used to support/make the rendering.

So are minecraft lanscapes made of voxels? No, these are polygons.

[0] http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ecstatica/ecstatica2-6.jpg
It would've been great if the author knew what 'distribution' means in this context.

"Distribution" is hardly specific to Linux distributions in technical circles. I don't know how you got that impression. The term is synonymous with software bundle, e.g. "Erlang/OTP distribution".
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr

MIT license
Nothing wrong with Microsoft bringing OSX and Linux to parity with Windows. In fact, there's a lot right with it. I like this new Microsoft, and I've been using Linux for years. Keep up the good work Redmond!

Excited to see that interesting tech like C#, F#, CLR, LINQ and friends is heading our way. If anything it'll give Java a run for its money and that's no bad thing.
I don't know that much about Los Angeles but did quietly presume that a lot of these problems are due to it being irretrievably screwed by terrible urban design: it seems like a place that's very hard to drive in (like New York) that is impossible to live in without driving (unlike New York).

Move to Chicago!
These companies products generally aren't simply a website - their web sites serve as a catalyst for delivering an actual product that provides functionality. The link is question isn't a product hosted on the web, its simply a personal website.
Never thought I'd say this but go Microsoft!
Extensive discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459364