skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your point is that the best public policy response to Waze doesn't involve changing Waze directly, I agree.

That's part of my point, sure.

> If your point is that the best public policy response to Waze is that cities suck it up and redesign their street grids or accept high traffic down residential streets, I disagree. The right response is for the city to enforce limits on how residential streets are used, which is exactly what they're going to do, because they've been doing it for decades.

Cities have been designing (and redesigning, where existing residential streets weren't designed with this in mind, or the surrounding environment has changed, or new design techniques have been developed) residential streets to make them unusable for through traffic while usable for local and pedestrian/bicycle traffic for almost as long as they've been enforcing local traffic restrictions, and (re)design, despite higher capital costs than enforcement, is generally more successful, lasting, and long-term cost-effective solution than enforcement, because it has lower ongoing costs than even the rather porous enforcement that cities ever bother to deploy (much less than any level of enforcement that could even approximate the degree of compliance that is achieved by just not having residential roads inherently usable for through traffic.)
It's no more powerful and dangerous than bash in the right hands.
Had the government in the UK run a surplus prior to the financial crisis I suspect the case for a larger Keynesian response from the UK public would have been better received. That is afterall what Keynes originally proposed. Modern Keynesians have disproved it's necessity and yet... public opinion ultimately drives policy, perhaps Keynes requirement of running a surplus in the good times in order to run a deficit in the bad was more about satisfying the psychology of the general public than anything else.
It is on pebble

http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/406359
There's ASP.Net and there's ASP.Net MVC. They're very different beasts, even though the latter is/was built upon the former. ASP.Net probably is on the way out, but MVC is not.
I'd guess that obj-c compilation is just done with clang (as they're already using clang for Android). The fact that they've apparently reimplemented UIKit/Foundation/etc. is the more surprising part to me.
> 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.

"These people" -- what, people with awful jobs?

"further squeeze out the middle class" -- how is this squeezing out the middle class?

Low end salaries in the US are a tragedy of the commons. Because people can cobble together subsistence services when collecting a "salary" (e.g. by going to the ER for medical care or collecting food stamps to eat) companies are able to get people to work for them for artificially low prices. Effectively, taxpayers are subsidizing Walmart and Macdonalds for paying people too little.

This is not the same as, for example, providing decent welfare or unemployment benefits that go away when you have a job. That drives up salaries because it makes having a shitty job seem worse than just collecting welfare. Instead we have income-based support that cuts in even for people who are working.

The middle class are being squeezed by medical costs which are in large part driven by the US healthcare situation. If our health costs were under control, the "middle class" would have enjoyed healthy salary increases over the last decade.
Management in particular. It's unfortunate that new personnel always feel the need to push their own vision rather than the previous guy's, often just for the sake of it.
Given the authoritative way in which you say:

[L]iving within your means leads to greater stability,
a market where prices reflect reality, and people that
save are rewarded.

I'm guessing you can back this up with a few modern examples of where austerity programs have been successful, right?
I'm playing devil's advocate: But Silverlight was too little too late. It arrived right as Flash was effectively dying. I don't blame them for killing it, it was dead on arrival.

I can explain the entire problem with Silverlight using two dates:

- iPhone initial release: 29th of June 2007

- Silverlight initial release: 5th of September 2007

Now, we can argue if iOS killed Flash, but I think between iOS's lack of support and all of the security issues associated with Flash, it was set up to lose popular support (and then HTML5/HTML5 DRM filled in the gap, even if it took years ultimately).

Silverlight was a Flash competitor in a world that decided it didn't need Flash.
Silverlight is still supported by Microsoft - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?c2=12905
One thing that's nice is that it's now open source, so as long as it remains open source, it will likely remain cross platform. Contributers that are on non-windows platforms will likely notice when something breaks on their platform, and get it fixed.
It does make sense for the government to (a) allow for insurance premiums to be paid out of flexible spending accounts, (b) decouple pre-tax FSAs from employment and make them available to anybody.

Not sure why it's not part of the ACA, perhaps there are some unintended consequences (a) would cause.
Lots of "Microsoft" on the front page of HN.
And because you and most people don't care, you're stuck with TCP instead.
I can't believe in 2015 PuTTY is still a thing.

Other platforms have a half dozen terminal programs, three of which are usually very good, and Windows has one that looks like it was hacked together on a weekend in 1998.
Where are the actual download links to play with it?
> Untraceable money is an oxymoron, the whole point of money is that the whole network of people using it, can trust it is not forged out of someones ass, and is instead what its claimed to be.

This is trivially disprovable. Gold.

> Imagine a world where every transaction, every penny spent or received by anyone, corporation, state, person, is open and transparent. No way to hide that corruption, that drug money or whatever else corporations and states are up to. No way to just make up money on the spot if you are rich and have a printer. No way to hide inequalities, at the workplace, between classes in a country.

The inequalities already aren't hidden and little is done about it. I'm not sure what you're thinking I'm going to imagine here.

The other side to this is transparency of finances. Of people seeing every time anyone bought condoms--that can be spun politically. Unmarried women are already shamed publicly for being on birth control: do you want to expose every time someone goes to the pharmacy? More people going to jail for non-violent drug posession due to unjust laws?

You seem to have a naive belief that more information is better. It's only better if that information is in the right hands.
One of the best markdown writers I have ever used is iA's Writer for Mac (and iOS) https://ia.net/writer/mac/

They have an Android version as well, but I have not used it.
Your son is deceased
Spring physics might be a bit challenging, because it involves updating a physical model on a timer loop until the system reaches equilibrium, whereas an easing function crudely approximates a physical system with a very simple formula. Having said that, the rebound.js example page mentions 'pre-recording' the animation, so in theory it ought to be possible to use that as the basis of a timing function. Definitely an area worth investigating.
It would be hilarious if it became easier to install .NET on Linux than it is to install Java.
From their docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs

Architecturally, Visual Studio Code combines the best of web, native, and language-specific technologies. Using the GitHub Electron Shell, Code combines web technologies such as JavaScript and Node.js with the speed and flexibility of native apps. Code uses a newer, faster version of the same industrial-strength HTML-based editor that has powered the “Monaco” cloud editor, Internet Explorer's F12 Tools, and other projects. And Code uses a tools service architecture that enables it to use many of the same technologies that power Visual Studio, including Roslyn for .NET, TypeScript, the Visual Studio debugging engine, and more. In future previews, as we continue to evolve and refine this architecture, Visual Studio Code will include a public extensibility model that lets developers build and use plug-ins, and richly customize their edit-build-debug experience.
Good point, I'll have to remember not to use it on any of my development workstations that have 512MB of memory.
> Most of the world has been following the recommendations of this “economist” for decades.

He's a Nobel Prize winner. You putting economist in quotes only reflects poorly on yourself.

> Just because it’s a government instead of a household or a business does not making borrowing against your future when you have no capability to pay it back a good idea.

He's not advising borrowing money you can't pay back. US, UK and other major economies absolutely can pay back the money they borrow. It's a ridiculous scare tactic that the far right has been pushing for the past 20 years to say that we are so far in debt we can never pay it back. That premise is only true if you adopt the ridiculous far right policy of lowering taxes to basically nothing on large corporations and ultra wealthy individuals.
The law doesn't say "you can't ask candidates for their photo" it says "you can't discriminate based on race/gender/pregnancy status/ethnicity/age (>40)/national origin in hiring practices."

If you are soliciting or encouraging photos of someone for a software job it looks suspicious - why would you need to know what a candidate looks like when looks aren't part of how well you can write software? Then you start looking like you plan to discriminate. The idea is not to solicit photos of candidates when their looks are irrelevant to the position. One HR policy may say "don't accept resume with photos so it doesn't look like we encourage all candidates to send them." Note: that isn't law but it could be company policy to protect them. Where the line is drawn probably varies by company and is probably arbitrary. Linking to your GitHub that happens to also contain your photo is probably not a big deal to anyone. Having an online resume where half the screen is taken up by your picture is different, it is no different than a paper resume that has your smiling face in the corner. I don't use GitHub (I don't have the time - I'm too old) but I understand it to be a more "social" and "casual" atmosphere which a photo is acceptable while a resume is a "professional" document that might also link to a more "casual" document.

The "rule of thumb" of not including your photo with a resume is because it is irrelevant to your job qualifications and was previously used to openly discriminate. This is a big deal since people here at HN have shared their stories of discrimination based on age - would someone who is aging an a little over weight want to dedicate half a computer screen to their picture?

Companies may just request that any information sent to them doesn't include a photo - this is a reasonable request. With this request they have covered their legal basis of saying "we aren't judging your resume based on how you look" but also might not throw out something that gives away your looks.
Denser cities are demonstrably better off and more efficient.
Please email hn@ycombinator.com with any questions or issues.
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Heck, I'd be okay with booting into a Windows PE drive, if it meant that after 1 reboot I'd have a fully upgraded OS.
I know the difference, but people today hear "voxel" and think "minecraft" and I didn't want to say "minecraft" in the title, because there isn't any world-level interactivity in this particular demo.
In California? it'd work for half the year; the other half, you'd die of heatstroke.
"Visual Studio Code" is deceptive marketing. It has nothing to do with Visual Studio. It's just another Javascript text editor built on top of Webkit.
Maybe something related to mailgun.com ?
I haven't looked through their code, but Atom (which used atom-shell, now electron) actually embeds google analytics in the editor. It uploads commands and file extensions.
I completely lost it when I got to this line:
"So suppose we’re conscientiously setting artisanal timeouts for all our TCP messages."

Well done.
Thats a much more complicated thing. I don't think the higher ed bubble will pop quite as publicly as the Social-techy bubble will. Law schools serve a better example for the pop and what it'll look like.

What I'm saying is that the techy-Social bubble's blame may fall on the brogrammers as an emblem of a larger and more complex problem.

Suffice to say though, I think most people on HN these days are competent enough to know there is a bubble and the end is not 5 years out, but less than 2
> False. Americans used to raise large families on minimum wage.

That's false. When minimum wage was introduced in 1938, it was for 25 cents per hour ($4.16 per hour adjusted to 2015), and was intended for low-skilled temporary jobs (they also had 44 hour work-weeks). Minimum wage only applied to 1/5th of the entire workforce in 1938. What does it apply to today?

Minimum wage jobs are supposed to be targeted at young unskilled/uneducated individuals, often times not supporting themselves nor a family (living at home while attending university or high school).

The problem is we now have a massive portion of the population attempting to live off minimum wage jobs instead of graduating into higher paid - higher skilled jobs.

We need to fix that. Raising minimum wage every few years when it perpetually becomes "not enough to feed a family on" is a near-sighted solution. How about we put money back into schools and high-skilled job training programs? That's the long-term solution.
How many minimum wage workers are there? If you only look at the number of current minimum wage workers there may not be many, but we are talking about raising the minimum wage to $15. That means everyone under $15/hr is affected. So, I think the real question is how many people are making less than $15/hr. I skimmed this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S... and it seems that median personal income is somewhere around 30K in the US. Well, $15/hr of full time work is about 31K. Therefor the number of people who will see a rise in their wages is potentially very large. So, I think that the problems with price increases are a real issue.

Another issue I thought of is this. If min wage workers all suddenly have wage increases by law, then businesses like fast food chains might just replace many them with machines. I mean, you already know your McDonald's burger is disgusting, so probably wont mind if it gets pooped out of a dispenser like pudding. So, this policy may simply lead to layoffs.
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> I expect the US Gov would simply make bitcoin illegal if robust anonymity were built on top of it.

...and much like the other things they make illegal, use of it will continue and the abuse will grow.
This is not new. This is an attempt to make something that has existed for decades seem new, hip, and edgy. Prefixing "no" to existing traditional technologies does not make something new or cool.

The only people who would buy into this are people who have no experience with networking, and thus this would only affect their probable usage of libraries down the road with the wrong intentions.

Hell, I don't even know who this is really suppose to address. My best guess is people with very little knowledge of network protocols and their usages.
> I annoy everyone else (who are all about 10 years younger than me) with my constant questions.

Are these technical questions or domain related questions ? If it's technical questions, I would highly recommend you to get books or videos equip yourself against these new challenges. I'd also recommend you to pick-up(ex:jquery) one area and go in-depth.

Its not hard to learn anything, If you put enough effort.

Honestly, I'll be annoyed with constant questions too, I expect others to do some basic google search or wiki and spend at-least 20 minutes before coming up with questions.

p.s : I'm more or less at your state, but i have different problem. Managers are telling me to 'go and ask questions to everybody' but I'm like 'I don't want to question without having basic understanding of what it is!' I'll spend my time understanding the problem first before I can seek them solutions.
Not really. All we have is a bunch of commenters, the most vocal from outside the area, hand-waving and saying officials should just fix the problem. Realities of settlement, infrastructure, and politics stand against just waving a magic wand, though.

Also, just saying "transit" is saying absolutely nothing without demonstrating that one knows the difference between the layouts of NYC and Greater LA.
Pivoting to becoming more service oriented. Azure/Office365 are their next generation core. Azure as a development target, which pragmatically makes sense as companies with Windows services/apps move to the cloud. And Office365 in the same vein. Not to mention them extending office to other platforms, which combined with Office365 (email) makes a lot of sense.

All of that said, outlook integration to office365 is actually worse as a mail client than it had been in the past with self-hosted Exchange. Counts don't update properly when you "delete all" from a folder, and even then it's inconsistent. I know it's to allow for better scale/resource control on the servers but it's still very annoying to say the least.
Thanks Dwight Schrute, that's quite an assertion without anything to back it up.

Historically, and worldwide, the inception of a minimum wage was enough "for a man, his wife and two children to live in frugal comfort" (Australia). In the US, the biggest win wasn't the wage at all, but the abolition of child labor in textile plants. In this snippet from [0]:

In the meantime, various industries developed more complete codes. The Cotton Textile Code was the first of these and one of the most important. It provided for a 40-hour workweek, set a minimum weekly wage of $13 in the North and $12 in the South, and abolished child labor. [Roosevelt] said this code made him "happier than any other one thing...since I have come to Washington, for the code abolished child labor in the textile industry." He added: "After years of fruitless effort and discussion, this ancient atrocity went out in a day."

Minimum wages for women were also a part of this.

[0]: http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdol/history/flsa1938.htm
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"Support for" maybe, but it's mainly meant for Javascript/HTML.
Make low-skill labor more expensive and you'll make it more attractive to find ways to eliminate low-skill jobs, such as the hamburger machine: http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/

McDonald's is already testing ordering machines. I'm sure most of us have been to a grocery store with self checkouts.

The minimum wage doesn't necessarily cause unemployment, but it does increase unemployment amongst those with the least skills.
> Not for those 3.3 million people, it's not.

3.3 million is about 2% of the workforce of the US. The point I'm making, is that the economic cost of the price increase (which is the argument made against minimum wage increases) is far less than the tangible quality-of-life benefits to those 3.3 million workers.

I'm for raising the minimum wage BTW. Because the pros (better life for those workers) far outweigh the cons, especially from an economic standpoint.
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Actually it is a real question, sorry if it came across snarky, I could not find any developers private offices while going around on streetview while seeing a lot of double screen stations in the open spaces. Did you change your mind ?
"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?"

That assumes you want to run the country/government like a business. I think that's a fairly large assumption.
Single modern language is still a strong selling point for Xamarin.
Nope, anybody who is legally allowed to work in the UK (so EU member states included)
You know this is a joke, right?
These guys should make their site's even text smaller, thinner, and lighter in color.

For the moment, we still notice that there's something that we're supposed to read.

http://contrastrebellion.com/

Sorry for the rant, that's the final straw...
> Denser cities are demonstrably better off and more efficient.

"Better off" is a matter of subjective value, and the fact that lots of people prefer not to live in denser cities demonstrates that the measures by which denser cities are "better off" do not represent universally-shared values.
> Most of the world has been following the recommendations of this “economist” for decades

That's exactly what they have not been doing.

> Just because it’s a government instead of a household or a business does not making borrowing against your future when you have no capability to pay it back a good idea. This guy is the same type of person that thinks that companies carrying a lot of debt is a good idea. The sign of a healthy business. Bunk.

Extremely relevant.

https://alvaroaltamirano.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/krugman...

HN may know programming but holy shit you're on the same level as the worst subs on reddit when it comes to economics and finance.
Does anyone know how to turn on automatic suggestions for non-supported languages? Syntax highlighting works great for Ruby (not officially supported), and good suggestions appear with "Ctrl-Space", but not automatically. Haven't had much luck with the settings JSON.

Pretty neat, though!
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Oh, go back to bed sourpuss
So is this open-source enough to get into Debian (free) and hence Ubuntu?
But how would you change laws to best account for this? It is not a trivial task, and current lawmakers are on average not very good with technology, so there would be a lot of research.

The best thing to do as an employer is to ask the candidate to directly provide code samples. If they don't understand why this would be necessary (or understand your explanation), they are probably not going to be a good employee anyway.

That said, when I receive github links with resumes, I always look at them (and often spend a long time reviewing the code). If the user has a non-picture avatar it is very relieving. I wish GitHub and LinkedIn would provide a build-in service to change your photo into an avatar or something to avoid this.
I lost it at "renaissance of artisanal protocols".
That basic math assumes that you add on the cost of raising the minimum wage by $1.00 instead of reallocating it from one paycheck to another. Person A now makes $999/hr and Person B now makes $11/hr from 1000 and 10 respectively. Net loss: $0.00. The real problem isn't that people making minimum wage don't make enough, it's that the wage gap is gigantic.
Ho ok ! Thanks for your answer !
I was genuinely wondering where those were.
Give them more money. Then they'll be able to pay more taxes to fund unemployment benefits for all the people who will be laid off.
There are more options than your three, such as [4] fix the road system so that routes through residential neighborhoods stop being the fastest.

You seem to present [3] as being the obvious and easy choice, but it's the only one that involves suppressing information i.e. censorship. That's a moral problem as well as a practical one: Waze provides a useful service, and if you shut it down or neuter it, you'll just get a dozen imitators popping up to take its place. (Never mind that a ton of apps besides Waze already provide the same sort of info.)