skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waze is a consumer DSS (decision support system) and as such delivers valuable, decision-affecting information. But it is limited to information. Directions to drivers, promise of speeding a commute, appeal to people in a hurry, directions through residential neighborhoods: All data.
> 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?

Among the solutions:

(1) Increase traffic patrols in places where the number of unsafe drivers is high, and ticket the unsafe drivers (this should be part of the response to too-high levels of unsafe drivers in an identifiable location regardless of the cause);

(2) Identify and resolve the problems with the intended through-traffic thoroughfares which is causing secondary roads to be more efficient routes for through traffic;

(3) If roads are intended to be used for ingress/egress of local residents and pedestrian/bicycle traffic, but not for through auto traffic, then do appropriate redesign (which often just means auto barriers in a few strategic locations) that makes them usable for the intended purpose but not for the unintended one.
The download worked for me, but the zip archive was corrupted, so I didn't even get a chance to try it out on linux (ubuntu 12.04)
Checkmate Stallman.
The market needs a superb JavaScript IDE. So far, IntelliJ is the leading out there but there needs to be more competition :).
Windows and .NET are different things. I'm fairly confident being able to run .NET on unix machines won't affect you very much so you can stay a happy Linux User. Also, times are changing man, for the better. Embrace it.
I wouldn't be so quick with your judgement on freeways though. Autonomously driving cars might alleviate a lot of the traffic problems we currently encounter.
Wow I'm so exited about this because if this catches on it will be my last reason stopping me from migrating to linux!

I couldn't find any info about it, but anybody knows if it will support importing Asp.Net solutions from VS 2013?
Those products were under development in Ballmer's time but it seems Satya took the credits.
"Sorry officer, I got lost and took a wrong turn. I'll make my way back to the main street."
This move was very thinkable a decade ago. Even two decades. In fact, a good example from 1995:

From Wikipedia: The strategy and phrase "embrace, extend and extinguish", was first introduced in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial when the vice president of Intel, Steven McGeady, testified[8] that Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz used the phrase in a 1995 meeting with Intel to describe Microsoft's strategy toward Netscape, Java, and the Internet.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguis...
A design like that coupled with a product that people think has some value, perhaps.
I use cygwin. I run cygwinsshd on localhost:22 and use Putty for my client.

A lot of windows-specific gui commands won't work through the ssh layer, but will if you run the cygwin bash shell directly. (Maybe there's some way to get them to work over SSH but I have never had reason to try and figure it out).

$ which nmap.exe
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Nmap/nmap.exe

$ nmap.exe -PN -p 80,443 news.ycombinator.com | grep tcp
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https

$ which ipconfig
/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/ipconfig

$ where ipconfig
C:\Windows\System32\ipconfig.exe

$ where which
C:\cygwin\bin\which.exe

$ which where
/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/where

$ ipconfig /all | grep Physical
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : [redacted]

$ reg query 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GOG.com\' /s | head

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GOG.com
DefaultPackPath REG_SZ F:\
DesktopIcon REG_SZ OFF

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GOG.com\Games

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GOG.com\Games\1207666383
PATH REG_SZ F:\Star Wars - X-Wing (1993)
GUID REG_SZ {F014338D-42E5-4DFC-BE77-F8E52BD998D5}
As a student, when you don’t have a lot of professional experience, having a good GitHub profile is a huge advantage in some companies. I got my current internship because of that. And the last one. And the one before.
>employers stop paying for benefits.

I'm curious if the majority frame it that way. To me, employers never really paid for benefits. It was the employees wages that was converted into health insurance as a loophole to circumvent WWII wage controls.

Using this "employee's-total-compensation" frame of reference, the real value add from the employer was having a Human Resources staff handling the administrative headaches of benefit plans. The "employer's health insurance" has always been the "employee's money" that was preallocated.

Today, employers providing health insurance is a voluntary arrangement. Employers do it to stay competitive in attracting job applicants. If employers are voluntarily providing insurance, and if the employer insurance component goes away, it seems logical that they will also voluntarily adjust wages offered in the marketplace for employees-DIY-insurance (because WWII wage controls are no longer preventing it.)

As an analogy, when Amazon or other retailer says they offer "free shipping", does that really mean they pay shipping? Isn't it really us, the customers that pay that free shipping? Therefore, "free shipping" is just a synonym for "the shipping cost you paid is baked into the price and through Orwellian doublespeak, we restate it back to you as free shipping."

Isn't "free shipping" frame-of-references similar to "employer provided insurance"?
Related:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
That's exactly what they're trying to do with the new app model.
It's not "rude," but it may be dangerous for the residents of that neighborhood. "Rude" would be using a private community's private road to avoid traffic. "Rude" would be cutting through a gas station on a corner intersection to avoid waiting at a red light. If a road is a public road, built to a certain specification (design speed, width, height clearances), then it is wasteful to not use it to it's slated capacity. There might be miscommunication between the Engineering Bureau and Urban Planning Bureau as to the road's/neighborhood's purpose , but that's a policy issue, not an obligation for private citizens to uphold.

The answer here isn't to tell private citizens "don't go here", or for private developers to add carve-outs into their apps for these roads, but to put pressure on politicians and budgetmakers so that they build better transportation infrastructure for all people.

(Personally, I think that private communities in the USA are a ridiculous idea, and are vestiges of codified segregation and redlining practice. Just using it here as an example.)
There are a few things in play here that you may not be considering. First this minimum wage increase would probably happen over 5 years like San Francisco and Seattle are doing. So businesses would have time to prepare and it would not go from $9 -> $15. Second, these companies have many costs outside of labor. If labor were to double for just employees making less than $15/hr, the price of everything would not just double. It would have to go up, of course, but it would not double. The final thing to consider is that if every one in the USA is making more money, they will also have more money to spend. This means they are more likely to spend money at these types of businesses thus increasing daily sales for the company.

The argument you are making is an extremely common argument from before the minimum wage was instituted decades ago where minimum wage was also (relatively, of course) significantly higher than it is right now. It turns out that people do like to spend money and when they have more of it, they spend more of it.
I visited that link and my browser was hijacked by a fake antivirus scam.

I'm on Linux, and use Adblock.

What's the deal here?
You're conflating age with level of experience.
Does it presume that most people have more time to devote to reading stuff online?

On a niche-by-niche basis, yes. For instance, I keep a list of personal finance blogs that I check out regularly. When one of those blogs features a personal finance site I haven't seen before, I check that out as well and consider adding it to my list.

One of the best ways to grow your blog traffic long-term is getting other bloggers in your niche to write about you. TrafficGun makes this easy.
I guess this photo is a counterpoint to http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-i... ?

Seems snarky (the title of this HN post). Not sure what the point is.
What is this useful for? I'm not a WebGL/VR programmer, so I'm curious as to why people would use this, besides the neat factor.
WARNING: Spyware / Phishing link above! Do NOT click!
I think its wrong, sure, but what's wrong is that the residential neighborhoods are a more efficient route than the supposed arteries.

The problem isn't that that information is available to or used by travelers, the problem is that its true in the first place.
See also, Calculate categorically! http://maartenfokkinga.github.io/utwente/mmf91j.pdf
For what its worth, I agree with you. That is to say, I feel like a lot of the people here giving out praise are being a bit excessive with it and this is simply a flavour of the day paint by numbers web page. Still, it's a good effort for a kid in college looking to get an internship.
Yeah, they're just going to ticket you. Do you not get a lot of traffic tickets? The idea that you can HN-argue your way out of a ticket strikes me as the kind of thing you can only think if you haven't had a lot of contact with traffic cops. :)

I mean, you can definitely try to talk your way out of it, and if the cop is feeling friendly, you may succeed. But it's pretty much all down to how nice the cop is feeling.

Your argument is going to come down to "I made a wrong turn and missed the sign that said I can't drive down this block". It's not that much different from the "I didn't mean to drive the wrong way down this one way street".
It's a phishing domain. Notice how it's spelled incorrectly.
This editor is built on Atom.
Amazon rents out goats to help with lawn care
The state already subsidizes the cost of your Big Mac by providing foodstamps and assistance to McDonald's poverty-wage workers.

McDonald's had a 'bad' 3rd quarter last year, which means they only made $1B in profit. It was down from 1.5B the previous year.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2014/10/21/mcdonal...

These companies can afford to pay their workers a living wage. It's not a question of whether workers "deserve" one hourly rate or another. The question is whether the working class will continue to tolerate it.
I don't believe it is out of date. The reason is the resume is the first impression of you - someone has to make a 60 second choice to look into you further - to call you or Google you. If you include a photo you are asking the company to evaluate your looks as part of the initial resume which have zero to do with your job qualifications. (we are talking about software here)

Like it or not employers make snap judgements without consciously thinking about it based on irrelevant characteristics. We know people with black sounding names get callbacks significantly less than white sounding names.[1] I can't imagine how much more difficult someone who was a dark skinned black would have it if they included a photo. Remember - employers give a resume a once over and their unconscious bias in in effect.

No hiring manager or HR person will tell you they are openly racist or disregard candidates based on their name - and they aren't lying! They just do it because social biases effect their evaluation without them realizing it. As much as we love to believe we are rational beings in a lot of ways we are not.

Also the reason why employers asked for a photo in a resume in the olden days was to openly discriminate against candidates. They didn't want to waste their time interviewing or following up with someone who is black, Hispanic, ugly[2], or a woman when they were seeking a white male. Their resume would just be discarded. Now that sort of discrimination is illegal in hiring so they stopped soliciting photos because they stopped (openly) taking that sort of information into consideration. Since your looks are irrelevant to the job they will often throw out resumes that contain photos so they aren't accused of taking looks into account when reviewing resumes.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/opinion/nicholas-kristof-i...

[2]Being ugly/fat isn't a protected class under federal discrimination laws in the US.
Distribution in this context means a million things. The author used the right word.
I'd just like to point out that this is simply a re-branded version of Atom.io, with additional plugins.
How is three seconds to run tests on a "small project" "not that bad"?
Will the Microsoft and Github consortia be able to dethrone Jon Skinner and his Sublime Text?
I am the author of current SIMD support in Rust, and my tentative plan is to implement something like Sierra, a SIMD extension for C++.

http://sierra-lang.org/
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Just an update - that URL is live now. I just downloaded Code for Linux.
Waze has synthesized voice instructions to "turn left at Oak Glen Circle." I call that "direction." You call it "information." Potayto, Potahto?

Also, "promise," meaning indicative of potential.
Reminds me of what my first impression of LinkExchange was.

Webrings! Everyone wins. No sarcasm.
Perhaps he was involved, if not leading many of the developments while Ballmer was running the show?
Downloaded & running on OS X.

Super impressed with its performance: it opens up & scrolls smoothly through a ~40M text file just fine. Memory usage is quite high though, but that's expected with an Electron-based app.
So you didn't get to the big contact form? Did you select the same things I did? I just tried it again on another account, and got the same page as before.

Try with https://account.live.com/acsr it's the page it eventually sends me to for the recovery.
That's the easiest way, but not the only way. Likewise, on Ubuntu you also often need build-essentials and various other dev libs manually installed.
Their security has been compromised on at least one occasion due to the platform they've built their service on (SolusVM).

Around two years ago a SolusVM zero day allowed attackers to:

- Partially or fully wipe most VPS, many of which could not be recovered

- Gain access to the database, including plaintext root VPS passwords, first name, last name, email

Not saying DigitalOcean is a fortress or anything but it hasn't been compromised on anything like this kind of scale.

Sources:

- http://blogs.ixiacom.com/ixia-blog/the-speed-of-a-zero-day-s...

- https://clientarea.ramnode.com/announcements.php?id=183
You're speculating. There no economic evidence that increasing the minimr um wage pushes up prices significantly. The fact is there are plenty of corporations that make billions in profit while paying their workers badly - there's a lot of room to pay people better without affecting prices at all.
Huh? If you can't afford to eat at McDonalds, maybe you should be protesting for a higher wage.
Even when Microsoft 'Embraced and Extended' Java, it was only on the Windows platform. It was not cross-platform. The whole point of that methodology wasn't to make sure that everyone was using Microsoft-flavoured Java, but to make sure that everyone was using Microsoft-flavoured Java on the Microsoft Windows platform.
> Waze is more than information. It provides directions to drivers, with the promise of speeding a commute.

That is no more than information. That is exactly information -- information about the most efficient route from one's location to one's destination.

So, yes, blaming Waze is blaming information.

If there is blame to be assigned for residential roads being part of the most efficient route between two points that are outside of those roads locale, it belongs to those responsible for the design of the road system, not to the app providing information about the results of that design in the current traffic environment.
I've never gotten a traffic ticket, actually. You might not be able to fight the cop, but a judge may be easier to sway. They have to show intent after all, no? I've read stories of people fighting such ordinances in court (not that that's a reliable source).
Which can be done by running 'clang' from a terminal. And if you want the full Xcode, install from the App Store with just an Apple ID needed, again for free.
Solving this is one of Matt Wrock's goals with Boxstarter. I've been experimenting with it recently and found it quite nice.
TrafficGun isn't about SEO/links. Its about gaining real, live visitors.

To this end, we strongly encourage all users on our platform to nofollow all links.
>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

This is exactly the point and where the problem lies.

If I live on the road, and am one minute from home, and know that my neighbor's kid likes to ride his bike there - then I'm going to be very careful while driving down it.

If I'm still 30 minutes from home, and using the road to get from one 50mph main road to a different 50mph main road, I'm going to be in a hurry and not respect the residential speed limit as much.

It's human nature, and we can fight it by [1] having police speed traps in every neighborhood (expensive), [2] having speed bumps everywhere (annoying), or [3] adjusting the dials on Waze's optimization function.
Great. I'm a confirmed UNIX geek and I'll be the first to say MS has always excelled at developer tools, and I'd be happy to be able to use them on Linux. (BSD is probably a pipe dream, but this is a decent start.)
You say if everyone is making more money they will have more money to spend, that is blatantly false. If you give everyone in the US a million dollars, do you seriously expect all prices to stay the same?
<sigh> A boy can dream...
That baggage is concentrated in one particular JVM language and is largely self-imposed. I write NLP software in Java without resorting to the AbstractFactoryFactory nonsense prevalent in the enterprise world.
Instakart.com redirects to AmazonFresh
If your point is that the best public policy response to Waze doesn't involve changing Waze directly, I agree.

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.
Automation is inevitable regardless. Keeping wages low will not prevent McDonalds from implementation labor-saving technologies.
> All it really means is that instead of an employer paying $X on behalf of an employee for a certain benefit, the employer pays the employee that same dollar amount and allows him/her to use the dollars as desired toward their own selection of benefits, from retirement to health insurance and more.

This money is usually pre-tax. Let's say an office worker is making $80k/year + benefits and pays about 25% to taxes. If those benefits amount to $10k (feasible between 401k matching, insurance and other things) the employer needs to come up with an extra $3.33k to pay the employee to compensate for the tax owed on the extra income.
The case for (re)decentralizing the Internet – Can we resurrect Cyberspace?
I was mostly joking when I suggested you might fight the ticket in traffic court. Traffic court is a hilarious, terrible waste of time.
Drake ipsum
Mass transit is the way to go but folks need to speak up. Call or email your representatives so they know to fight for the right things. Everyone knows traffic is awful in LA but the status quo will remain in effect if no one seems to care about changing it.

Personally, I gave up on the commute and just rented an apartment 9 minutes away from work and 5 minutes away from the new expo line (train line from Santa Monica to downtown LA) by bicycle.
It's a little bit more than that: around 7 years old.
They may have been under development during Ballmer's time, but it's hard to believe that they would've seen the light of day under Ballmer's leadership. And if Ballmer released any open sourced products, I get the feeling that there would be major strings attached. And it would have a switch and bait sort of feel to it. Kind of like Oracle with Java and other technologies from Sun.

The fact is, Nadella has made open source a lot more palatable from Microsoft.
There's a lot more info on it in its documentation here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs Looks interesting, but I don't really see much that differentiates it from Atom, Sublime, Brackets, etc. Also the language support is kinda barebones--no syntax highlighting for Go or Rust? Only intellisense for Javascript and web stuff? Debugging only for Node.js?
what am i missing here? a look at their TOS:

"The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. For this pre-release version, users cannot opt out of data collection. Some features in the software may enable collection of data from users of applications you develop using the software."
Looks like it just uses Electron.
Get it from https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
Encryption Technology and Potential U.S. Policy Responses
Instead of trying to have Waze direct people into less efficient routes, shouldn't the L.A. city council use the data provided about how roads are being used to address the fact that the "major roads" that are intended to be the efficient routes between distant locations are, in fact, not doing their jobs.
Changes to Google Contributor: it's more expensive and only removes some ads
Googling "selfmade drone with 2000kv" turned up the video that appears to be banned based on your comment.

Googling "Quadmovr" which appears prominently in the video produces a lot of SEO'd results. It wouldn't surprise me if they'd hammered HN. Combined with the relative dormancy of your account, there's a good chance that the account and the specific video correlate with previous problematic accounts to trigger blocking.

That a link to the video was posted anyway despite the request to stop spamming suggests that the heuristic may not be out of line.
How we Spent the Kickstarter Money, where we are now, and what’s next for Ghost
Fix Mavericks/Yosemite display in YPbPr color mode
Industry executives will be the next wave of in-demand startup CEOs – Toptal
no syntax highlighting for Go or Rust?

surely you jest ;)
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/learn_diff_map_chart....

Aeronautical charts extrapolate from this because being in command of an aircraft is really just commanding a different kind of vessel. Port, starboard, manifest, fix, captain, first officer, and hull are all valid aviation terms, for example, with roots in the sea. A chart is not a map.
It was not cross-platform

Cross-platform didn't mean much in 1995. Which other platform was there at the time? Apple was dead in the water. Red Hat had just come into existence. Netscape Navigator 1.0 had just shipped in December 1994.
You are spot on. I lived in NYC for a few years for school and LA is just as crazy as NYC for traffic, except you have to drive.