skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you expect your employer to keep his same prices and same amount of work force and just eat the labor cost?

Many will simply eat the cost, actually. The minimum-wage debate is more about politics than economics. There's not as many minimum wage workers as people think, so for very little economic cost, you can increase the quality of life for the lowest paid workers in our society.

A few businesses may be forced to change, but those are the ones that run razor-thin margins.

> What happens if you make $9 now, make $15 tomorrow, but tomorrow the prices of everything you buy suddenly doubled?"

Nothing will double in price. Given the amount of minimum wage workers that actually exist in the US, prices shouldn't increase by more than 5%. Anything more would just be opportunistic gouging.
> without affecting prices at all.

You're speculating, too.
The push to open source started under Ballmer and has been gaining momentum the past few years. You saw some of the very early open source work debut when Scott Guthrie open sourced ASP.NET MVC 2 in 2010.

He (Guthrie) blogged a few times about evangelizing open source in Microsoft, and given today's news, he gained quite a bit of traction over the years. It also helped that ASP.NET MVC is a pretty sold web framework too.
Interestingly, Atom is already available on MS, OSX, and linux today. They need to make it competitive and updated with the current Atom to be popular. On the other hand, this gives Atom some good competition and impetus to improvement, and I already like Atom.
Neither. Herbal infusions.

Such as: ginger, licorice, peppermint, chamomile, lemongrass, etc...

Why? Regular consumption of caffeine gives me headaches. Also I disagree with the wholesale use of stimulants on a population. "Coffee: Do Stupid things faster and with more energy."
We have a product that provides licensing and copy protection for desktop apps http://www.licensespot.com

We've been growing our customer base steadily. So the answer is yes, lots of startups doing desktop apps.
Not really. I'm a big fan of MIT style licenses, but it also means that Microsoft could at anytime start making proprietary updates.

It could mean we could start adopting it and then at some point down the road they could discontinue the open version and start making closed features/updates.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased that this is the direction Microsoft is taking. I am just still very skeptical.
Unfortunately the state of California doesn't check for this. So many companies still do it, and likely get away with it.
Especially when his IG is way too overloaded with self-photo shoots :-)
The mayor has a plan for LA. Opinions are mixed, but at least someone is trying to do something.

http://la.streetsblog.org/2015/04/08/garcetti-unveils-sustai...
Krugman: an idiot who recommended inflating housing bubble to the FED publicly back in 2003
Security Should Be Application-Specific
Its there, just not advertised.
Top Chess Culture Shocks: Expat Student Champs in the U.S. Tell All
I really hate anime and it seems to be coming more pervasive in the web design world.
Yes! Finally we can use .NET on on Linux a supported official way.
Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2015 with Support for Universal Apps
Looks like BoE Governor Carney is anti-austerity. I wonder how his meetings with Mr. Cameron go.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/28/bank-england...
I hope that this problem encourages LA's more elite residents to strongly support a subway underneath the 405. Poorer residents in the flats have long suffered this effect adjacent to freeways.

But whatever the class of residents affected is, to mis-use streets intended for local neighborhood activity is terrible behavior.

Due to where things are headed technologically, it is only a matter of time before the city simply automatically charges drivers fines for driving inappropriate routes.
Do AD blockers and plugins only partially solve privacy on the web?
NoTCP
Heck, even email in a browser still is rough going, and I'm using a webmail interface Google has been working on for ages now, in Google's own browser -- but I still write most of my emails in a native mail application.

"Edit X from any anywhere" is a great idea, and "Every time you open the application you'll automatically have the newest version" is a great idea, but when you add them together and get "our application will run in the browser" it falls flat (still) in crucial ways.

Just basic workflow -- work on your code in the browser-based IDE, then (in the same browser, with your multiple tabs and windows) go dig up some ideas on SO, check your gmail... Now flip back quickly to your IDE. Oh -- but it's not in your dock/taskbar, or Alt-tab menu. Which of those browser windows was it in?

You can work around this by tweaking your workflow, and obviously Google in particular is working on browser apps that bridge the gap; I use Postman in Chrome, and that's a better experience. But this is more important than I think a lot of people realized.
I'm a young dev (26) that works with a lot of older developers (40-50) rather new to the field. My biggest annoyance with the older inexperienced devs is that they DON'T ask questions resulting in very bad design decisions. Keep asking questions but maybe frame them differently. i.e. instead of "How do I do this?" say "I'm planning on implementing it this way, do you think this will work or is there a better way?" This shows that you did some research and value their opinion.
Show HN: FlipFeed
FlipFeed is a continuous stream of ephemeral photos and messages, where you don't know what you're going to see next!

The app is smooth to use. It's called FlipFeed, because it's a continuous stream of photos and messages. You're shown a photo or a text-message posted by someone, you have 30 seconds to view it, or you swipe to flip open the next photo or message. So, as you might have guessed, you can post photos and texts on the app. Every new post gets added at the end of the feed, so we're talking a big, long continuous feed.
There's also a reply feature, so you can reply back to the original poster, or to your friends (kind of like forwarding an email).
Another thing you can do is, instead of sharing publicly on FlipFeed, you can share privately with friends (like composing a new email).

Me and my friend have been working on it - we are the co-founders, and we've only recently launched it.

Here are few of the things we've observed mainly:
People like it a lot when they don't know what they're going to see next.
Ephemeral adds a very good angle to the app. and
People like to talk between their friends a lot!

Please feel free to provide feedback.

url: flipfeed.co
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipfeed/id973236234?ls=1&mt=8
Android: Please signup at flipfeed.co to be notified when we launch the Android version.
Wait --- how do the real live visitors get to your site if not a link?

I don't follow how nofollow makes it not a link web ring?

No sarcasm, I used webrings in 1996 to great effect. Not for SEO. For real live visitors.
The prices will not double. According to someone on the internet†, labor is 25% of fast food revenue. The prices need only go up 25% to maintain profit margins.

Economics wil then raise its ugly fuzzy head and the balance between automation and human labor will shift, there will be more machines doing work. People already making $15/hour will eat less fast food since it is more expensive, people who have had their wages double will probably eat more fast food since they have more money. Total consumption could go either way. Total employment could go either way, it depends.

One possible outcome is that revenue gets shifted to lower paid workers who spend it, creating more jobs and a larger economy. Capital investors will get less, but they already have so much capital piled up that there is a glut and they have difficulty getting people to rent it from them (~3% prime rates).

What actually happens? That is the realm of gamblers.

␄

† http://smallbusiness.chron.com/common-food-labor-cost-percen...
Related article: "A jobs miracle is happening in Britain, thanks to tax cuts. Why don't the Tories say so?"

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9475222/the-coalitions-j...
Driving around a red light like that can be a traffic violation (which goes beyond rude, in the sense that a cop won't write you a ticket for most things that get called rude).

It's an interesting discussion where the frequent answer is to make the roads less functional for the residents (which is what redesigns that prevent through traffic do), because anything less and the road is being wasted.
The only part which scares me is that people will start making Linux apps using dotnet technologies.
>Also, times are changing man, for the better. Embrace it
Yup. That is why MS had to realize that *nix is eclipsing it in cloud and to grab extra some extra pennies out of our pockets, they are releasing their products on these platform just to fool us that they care. Actually they don't care us at all.
Windows is becoming irrelevant, Microsoft Office is being supplanted by Google Docs being both free and 'good enough', and worst of all, Microsoft completely missed the boat on mobile.

The Microsoft of old would have died out eventually. What we are seeing is not something you see often - a behemoth of a company doing a 'pivot'.

What would you do remain relevant in the face of the majority of the internet services not going anywhere near Microsoft for material income?
Vintage Visualization Restoration – Bump Chart Edition
Is it dark matter, or a previously unrecognized failure of Newton?
I've got the power!? Wow, MS took my request so seriously!

This was my last comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438293

> By installing Visual Studio Code, you agree to the terms and data collection described here

Just curious, but I can't seem to find the terms.
You've never heard a user say "power off" or "die" or "shut down" when an app crashed?
Its also obvious that things itself aren't different just because you give them a different name.
In fairness, as long as they have copyright assignment from contributors, they could just as well do that with a GPL software.
How to Improve the User Experience with “Objective-Based Design”
The description says it's lightweight, but on my machine it uses over 200 MB of RAM with no files open, and appears to be a Chromium-based thing, much like Atom (as others pointed out, it's based on Electron). Meanwhile, Sublime Text is using less than 100 MB of RAM with dozens of files open, some of them quite big. Visual Studio tends to use less memory than this, too. If "the language services [Microsoft] built for Visual Studio Code [are going to] be available in other editors as well", then I will definitely pass on this one (and this, assuming I ever get interested in developing in .NET again).

On second thought, for now this looks nothing more than a marketing trick, very well pulled off.
WOW. They just did it. These guys rock!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459364
I actually tried it for about a half hour, and so far like it a lot... I don't know if/what plugins will become available. I do like that the side menu makes it much easier to show/hide the file directory view (which is indispensable imho). Also, the git integration seems very nice, I haven't tried it as I'm editing via a samba share to a nix machine and don't want to screw up the file permissions.

A couple nitpicks...

* There doesn't seem to be a way to set the file encoding... can I assume that files will always be saved in UTF8 w/o BOM?
* There doesn't seem to be a way to set line endings... can I assume that files will always be saved with unix (lf) line endings? By extension, will this fix windows line endings, or mixed to LF line endings?
* It would be really nice if there was an integrated command prompt, similar to cloud9's, that could be shown/hidden. Configurable to use a given shell (in windows, I'd prefer a git-bash prompt).

All in all, really nice work, and this may well replace sublimetext everywhere for me. I don't use any of the more advanced plugins with sublime, and I actually like the VSC editor's UI more. They seem to have burrowed the hotkeys from sublimetext.
C# just got a little sharper!
The GPL doesn't protect against that either. They still own the code, either way, and can make new development closed whenever they want.
Expensive labor helps automation a lot. It's the question of economy after all, if humans are cheaper than robots, there's a little incentive to spend money on deploying the bots.
You're suggesting that the same guy, who told his own kids "no you can't have an iPhone, iPod or iPad, you have to use a windows/zune/whatever device", and then after leaving Microsoft, bought a basketball team, and told them they could no longer use their existing Apple products, would have OK'd the release of a cross platform development tool...
I'm well aware it's entirely a legal issue. Notice how I said the law is outdated? Laws aren't known for keeping up to date with technology.

Imagine a resume for a technological position as a programmer in a company. The person includes their Github account, where they are using a picture of themselves as their avatar. What do you do in that scenario? A personal picture is frequently used as an avatar on Github. Their repositories are highly relevant to the position in which they are applying - but you now have a photo of them.

Do you throw out the resume in fear of a discrimination lawsuit? Would you throw out a supermajority of the resumes you get because of this issue? Regardless of how qualified the individuals were?

Placing your Github handle is pretty common practice if you have good contributions. Using a picture of yourself as your avatar is also pretty common practice on Github.
Ahh, my bad. I thought you were implying this was some sort of link exchange scheme for SEO.

But yes, cross-promotions work great for growing traffic long-term. See this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459902
This seems to be a trend - python, before it erlang-on-metal. Is there a stable higher-level language runtime that runs on bare metal (that I can boot in a VM)? Or, better yet, something that compiles arbitrary LLVM code into .ISOs for deployment?
I'm working on a MBP, but also really interested in the pixel. We tend to now work in the cloud more than ever, and like the lower cost and simplicity of the chromebook.
OpenVZ is a container based virtualization solution. Among other things it means you can't run your own kernel or make changes to the existing kernel.

The biggest problem I've encountered with it is not being able to set up certain iptables rules without a particular setting on the OpenVZ host being enabled (which often requires a support ticket).

To put it simply, OpenVZ works similarly to Docker rather than VirtualBox or VMWare and comes with similar benefits and limitations.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459513
I think he was referring to sites that allow you to manage and collaborate with others, etc. e.g., sourceforge
Microsoft is bringing Android and iOS apps to Windows 10
New solar telescope unveils the complex dynamics of sunspots' dark cores
A behemoth doing a pivot, but a pivot to what? And how are they going to monitize it?
Qt on the Raspberry Pi 2
There are huge differences in work force that make such comparisons as good as useless.

For example, the jobs for people who put your stuff in paper bags at Walmart do not exist in large parts of Western Europe, and doormen are way rarer. In general, the USA has more low-paying, low productivity jobs than Western Europe. That lowers average productivity for the USA.

Also, measuring productivity is hard. You can't look at pay, as that can be quite different for exactly the same work (you can get a suit made in Asia for peanuts, but that doesn't mean people working there aren't productive)

So, you scale for _something_: average income (before or after taxes), hamburger index, or whatever. In the end, it will be very, very hard, if not impossible, to do that objectively. If the outcome of your procedure differs by a large factor from what you expect, you will search for errors in your logic. If it matches what you expect, it is hard to keep searching as hard.
If all you care about is the short-term, then forget about austerity. Juice things up a bit. Throw some borrowed money at it. Alleviate some economic misery. But long-term, living within your means leads to greater stability, a market where prices reflect reality, and people that save are rewarded. This is a far greater payoff in exchange for some potential short-term pain.

The worst part is that many governments claiming “austerity” are just playing accounting tricks and not really moving towards solvency. The solution for having spent too much and distoring the economy is not to continue to do the same.

We’ll never know who is right, though. Most of the world has been following the recommendations of this “economist” for decades. Maybe only indirectly because I’m not sure how many people pay attention to him. Spending massively is popular with the public because they get all the benefits, but will be 6 feet under when the bill comes due.

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.
F# is a real breath of fresh air in comparison to something like Scala. It's direct ML heritage really shows, also just diving in with an IDE (like Xamarin, or I suppose Visual Studio) is super easy.

I see it as the future of pop-functional programming. For example look at the way it handles type inference w/ JSON parsing. Compare that to what you have to do to parse JSON in Scala. It's subtle, but a major usability win.
Normally you reach a decision on the kind of redundancy and technological diversity by looking at certain risks and then decide if you only need one, two of the same, or two or more of differently implemented/built devices using different methods of operation.

For (made up example, I don't know anything in particular about aviation, but know the general approach from working with controls for nuclear powerplants) navigation one might conclude that GPS and old-fashioned UHF radio navigation is technologically different enough that an event taking down one means of navigation (say, jamming of GPS at 1.5 GHz, spread spectrum, digital, ...) will not affect UHF radio (at analog modulation on a few hundred MHz). So one decides that you have GPS and UHF, displayed on different monitors/indicators, powered by separate power-busses in the airplane.

For paper documentation, they'll probably claim: Bring two binders with the procedures to the plane, store at different sides of the cockpit.

For iPads one might have decided that they must not be connected to any network while on the plane, so that data cannot be deleted from the pilot's and first officer's devices. But have they considered the "common cause failure" of two iPads, not being connected to any network, not communicating with each other, with full batteries, probably with passed selfchecks (checksums for stored data on the flash)... to really fail at the same time because of an expired certificate?
I think blaming Waze is blaming an imbalance in the system. One side of the equation has leapt ahead of the other via technology and now there's an imbalance. Technology tends to take fairly steady state systems in equilibrium and turn them on their head for awhile.
This is definitely a big and newsworthy announcement from MS Build. And one of the few times that linux was given any respect as a platform. I think it still remains to be seen as to how serious MS is about real cross-platform products and work, but it's a great step. If they make their cross platform products roughly equal, not like that mono crap, then I would consider that to be a real effort by MS.
Wow. Are people defending the monolithic app? Maybe it is where I hang out, but I'm not seeing many.

See for example, Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
From @proksoup's article:
"We don’t actually even give everyone private offices: some people are doubled up in offices, and the sales and marketing teams sit in larger open spaces because they feel that’s an important part of how they work."
I have to be honest here....

I review resumes and have a say in hiring decisions in my company. I would probably have a tendency to disregard this resume because of the picture. It is pretty distracting and frankly makes me uncomfortable. I don't wish to evaluate a candidate based on their looks but this one says "my looks are important to my job qualifications." Perhaps I'm old fashion and this is over the top but it just rubs me the wrong way and I feel the "type" of candidate who includes a picture like that isn't the "type" of candidate I'd like to have on my team. It comes off to me as narcissistic.

Perhaps the younger, hipper crowd appreciates this sort of thing - if you are going for that type of work. Long established companies might pass this one up.

I might be completely out in left field here though.
> Personally, I gave up on the commute and just rented an apartment 9 minutes away from work

Not everyone can do that -- it's harder when you have kids.
Payy – Your page on the web for accepting payments
Intellisense on Linux for C++ will be awesome. Sublime Text 3 is sorely lacking this feature :|
Arguably windows didn't have the hold it does now in 1995... in 1995, DR-DOS/Desqview and other UIs were prominent, and OS/2 was more popular as a desktop than Linux has ever been (as a ratio), not sure about OSX today. That also doesn't count Apple's penetration at the time which really wasn't as insignificant as you make it out to be.

A lot of that changed starting with Windows 95. Though, it's really 1998 that MS practices in terms of embrace/extend/extinguish was at their top.
I have been using C# on Mono for a back-end and so far so good.

For code I am editing on MonoDevelop or on VS and then compiled and ran on Linux.
Remember what happened when the big financials got bailouts? One under Bush and another under Obama? The banks said, please help us, if we fail we'll take the economy with us. If you help us, we promise to make more loans and stimulate housing growth.

What actually happened was they tightened up their standards and gave out very few new loans, while dumping billions into board room bonuses. This is exactly what happens when there's a tax cut: we used to call that voodoo economics or trickle down. Sounds good in practice but it depends on the good will of executives, which has been proven largely absent time and time again.

Now, take that behavior into the board room at Walmart or Target, and instead of a windfall, it's a new expense (just flip the sign bit :-). Of course they're going to raise prices; where else will it come from? Touching share price is verbotten, as is anything in the executive suite.
4 years on, neither will save you. That's an issue of trading off short term schedules for long term flexibility. (Not an absolute right or wrong)

Agile could have helped uncover the need earlier, or enabled the project to react to it mid-project. Post production changes don't seem better or worse served by either.
Visual Studio running on Ubuntu, debugging ASP.NET app
Ballmer was CEO for over 14 years, during which very little of this happened. While some of this was obviously being worked on under him, I find it hard to buy the idea that Ballmer did all the work and Nadella just swooped in and took the credit.
It's simply a personal preference for dense cities vs being an absolute truth.
Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10