skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'"These people" -- what, people with awful jobs?'

People with completed unskilled jobs that could be performed by a twelve year old if labor laws allowed. An unfortunately high number of unskilled, unmotivated people take jobs at places like McDonalds with no ambition to do anything better.

Raising the minimum wage ONLY raises the minimum wage in terms of earning, so yes it squeezes the middle class as their earning comes closer to the minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage results in inflation and raising costs; this directly impacts the middle class.

Quite frankly many of these are also providing services that just aren't necessary; they are purely convenience. People only have so much money to spend, so raising prices results in fewer sales as some people will switch to substitute goods. In the example I'm working with here, buying groceries and cooking at home is a cheaper substitute good for McDonalds; as the cost of McDonalds raises more people will substitute this with cooking at home.

This is just the basics of supply and demand. So yes, "these people", anyone with a low paying unskilled job should be doing anything in their power to develop needed and in demand jobs so they can raise their earning potential. Aside from the few that move up to managerial roles at a place like McDonalds there is no earning potential. These are the types of places where you get hired with no prior job experience or skills. They are not now, nor have they been in my lifetime, sustainable careers.
You can always compile the .NET Framework into your app... https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn584397(v=vs.110)....
"NO THROUGH TRAFFIC".
The way around this is to update your deployment images from time to time.

It's one reason I liked service packs, new service pack comes out, generate a new install image.
Who else experienced a secret guilt about thinking "oh good, I'm going to try this out, and I hope it works well"?

If it helps with Unity C# development on a Mac, I will be very happy. Please be better than MonoDevelop!

Note: I installed the latest version of Mono and now Intellisense is working with my Unity project!

I voted for this:

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studi...

>Unity Integration

>Visual Studio for Mac is a breath of fresh air for those of us who use Unity on a daily basis. Please oh please get it tightly integrated, similar to UnityVS for Windows.

>The day I can dump MonoDevelop and Xamarin for good would be better than my last 10 birthday presents combined - and they were pretty sweet!
I read the editorial that the "housing bubble" quote is from and it doesn't sound at all like he actually recommends it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip...

The theme of that article seems to be, "we're screwed, and here's why." In that context, the quote in question seems to be saying, "the only way out would be to create a housing bubble, that's how screwed we are."

I think it's ironic to complain about "treated as the word of god" in a comments section absolutely flooded with criticism of him.

I wish we could discuss the ideas rather than the author, in any case.
> We’ll never know who is right, though. Most of the world has been following the recommendations of this “economist” for decades.

No, they haven't. No country has passed the kind of budget-busting stimulus packages Krugman has said was necessary. The closest any country came was the US, which passed a stimulus package less than half the size of his recommendations and that consisted largely of tax breaks instead of spending increases.

> 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

No, he isn't. Unless those companies owe debt in currencies they control.

I've noticed there's a bizarre phenomenon surrounding Krugman where people just refuse to read what he says and instead put all kinds of nonsense into his mouth. It happens to all public figures to some extent, but it just seems really next-level with Krugman (and these particular claims are pretty tame compared with the wild accusations you often see.)
Krugman doesn't claim that the U.S. has experienced (significant) austerity during the last couple of years, especially compared to Europe. See the chart, which shows that austerity peaked in summer 2011. [1]

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/the-obama-bounce...
If you want to do advanced stuff in your scripts, you've never been limited on unix systems to just sh or bash, but on Windows you still don't have a good shell for interactive use.
I couldn't agree more. TCP is wonderful when you need it, but you very often don't need it (and pay a heavy price for features you don't need).

I wouldn't want to write HTTP over UDP, but neither would I want to send telemetry data ('{"timestamp":343821902, "value": 43}') over TCP. UDP is brilliant for systems where you're more concerned about tracking the current state of things than accurately replaying the last n set of transactions.
I'm guessing there's other factors. For example, Australian prices are high because of labour (it's very hard to illegally immigrate to an island surrounded by oceans) but also because everything has to be transported over vast distances and many products have to be imported.

I'd guess the much smaller market (35m inhabitants vs 320m - Australia has 22m), the weather, the distance from production centres and major ports, and so on would impact prices as well.

As for beer it might be taxes, which Wikipedia says are amongst the highest in the world.
I dont see any problem... :-)

https://imgur.com/zzk4iN0
Neat. I am all for equivalent look&feel and work flow across different OS's. One thing that strikes me as strange, this looks very similar to Qt Creator[1].

[1] http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtcreator-2.4/creator-overview.html
The numbers are not so bleak as you think.

> Wikipedia [sic] has 36,000 franchises worldwide

McDonalds only has 14,339 franchises in the US [1] -- where the pay raise debate is happening.

> Assume we're paying about 100 person hours/day for a franchise, assume 360 days [sic] in a year, and you get... about 1.3 billion paid hours.

According to the parent comment, McDonald's made $1B in profit during the 3rd quarter alone. Correcting for both the number of franchises & the quarter vs the whole year of labor yields an estimated $7.64 in profit per hypothetical hourly employee (HHE). And keep in mind that it's down from $1.5B profit previously, which corresponds to an estimated $11.46 per HHE.

> That's a [sic] 3.4% of their revenue!

McDonald's has $7.95B of earnings on $27.44B in revenue [1]; about 29%. Even if their profit is only $4B annually ($1B in Q3 x 4 qtrs.), that's still 14.6%.

> Capitalism is very efficient...

People are not. And that's the point. People making minimum wage don't always have the flexibility to take risks that would allow them to advance. "A bird in the hand" and all that often means that a stable minimum wage job is more valuable than a risky opportunity to make more.

[1] http://www.statista.com/topics/1444/mcdonalds/
The low contrast must have impaired your reading ability:

> just as the Reactive Manifesto reminded us that new branding can give a youthful glow to decades-old ideas
> then businesses like fast food chains might just replace many them with machines

Like McDonald's is currently piloting in France where you order your food from a touch-screen kiosk instead of a cashier.[1]

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/mcdonalds-hires-7000-touch-screen-c...
This feels like a discussion in which "NO THROUGH TRAFFIC" signs are a proposal, something abstract, that doesn't exist. "NO THROUGH TRAFFIC" signs are everywhere, and they are routinely ticketed. If your friend lives on the street you're ticketed on, you probably won't get a ticket. If they don't, you probably will.
Chart: use of “penis” and “vagina” ranked by ratio
I agree that in the long term austerity is necessary.

However, austerity as it’s used in politics[1] is little more than a talking point. The Republicans run on the austerity platform and yet Republicans increase deficits more than Democrats. The US deficit is caused largely by military spending and corporate welfare, and the Republican party refuses to cut military spending (unless it’s to helping veterans). The Democrats also increase deficits, but at least they don’t do so while running on an austerity platform.

The few politicians who I would actually trust to be economically responsible are completely socially irresponsible.

The fact is, whether or not austerity is the right way to go is completely irrelevant to how austerity is actually used in politics. So whether or not austerity is the right way to go is a moot point.

[1] In the US—I don’t know enough about international economics to talk intelligently about them.
Once the non-TCP protocol has been written, we'll need to make sure it's portable through corporate and ISP firewalls, so we should write an HTTP extension that tunnels the non-TCP protocol over HTTP proxies without using CONNECT, and on port 80. We'll need to patch the proxies and the browsers and the web servers, of course, but it's all in the name of a better, newer protocol that doesn't have the clunky overhead of TCP.
From their twitter account (https://twitter.com/notcp)

> Sign the manifesto: http://notcp.io . If you can figure out a way to sign it using UDP, let us know.

It's pretty clear they know they are being ridiculous.

That said, it is nice to have reminders that there are alternatives to the overwhelmingly popular default. Kids these days grow up using TCP so much they become devs who can't conceive of whole categories of software that don't happen to line up with the tradeoffs designed into TCP. Heck, seems like most people have a hard time remembering that there's more to the Internet than HTTP.
I've been to a counsellor but no psychologist is taking new patients in my area (that I've been able to find). I get up everyday at 6 and hit the gym before work. Usually 30-60 minutes of walking on an incline followed by an hour of lifting. I run maybe 1 or 2 times a week, still trying to get back into it. It's a little bit more difficult at 275lbs then I remember it being at <220lb but I still can make it 2 miles without stopping. I'm down 30lbs but I'm still up and down emotionally. I don't really have any reason my life seems pretty good relatively speaking. I'm much better now than I was a few years ago but still not good enough I guess.
People should have a place to call home and not starve whether they have a good job, a minimum wage job, or no job at all.

Education and training are a great way to help people move up, but we need a ground floor too, rather than a basement full of jagged rebar.
Different package managers make different design decisions that make them incompatible with each other without sacrifice. Guix/Nix focus heavily on reproducibility and not relying on any third party binaries. These features would have to be thrown away if it unified pip, npm, etc. because they make no such guarantees.

Every package manager works different, and trying to accomadate all of them with a unifying tool will require a lot of time wasted writing interfaces between them all. I don't see a way to do it without lowering the feature set to the least common denominator and settling with that. The real solution is to elevate our system package managers to the point of handling the important use cases that currently only language package managers provide, such as virtualenv/Bundler style management (i.e. installing packages somewhere besides /). Nix/Guix accomodate all such use cases, which is why I promote them.
Holy shit this trolled me hard. I was raging reading about how people were too dumb to understand how to handle TCP failures but were apparently smart enough to re-implement re-ordering and error recovery in their own manner.

Well done.
I don't know. I suggest you ask a policeman or a judge.
Microsoft announces Windows Holographic platform
What does "incredible" mean here? Over and above market?
I don't want to live on this planet any more.
I wonder how much tweaking supervisord[1] would need to be suitable as a init replacement/for running as PID 1?

Incidentally, I also came across [2] -- which I wasn't aware of.

[1] http://supervisord.org/

[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon
"I'm going to a friend's house. He is located at $ADDRESS."

If you're proposing this as a way to avoid a justified ticket by lying to the police, all I'll say is, good luck with that.
We use Electron for the shell, but our own Monaco editor, which we've optimized for large files, long lines, etc.
I'm not one to complain much, but it is unreadable. My tired eyes were not happy with their decision. May I suggest something more readable to the people behind the website? Please and thank you.
how was the saying, "Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly"..
Free tool comes with strings attached, so?
I've installed and tried it.

I am sure I must be missing something. It is a text editor, feels sublime-y. But it doesn't seem to be even a smaller cousing to Visual Studio, so the name is confusing.

It seems to be geared towards JS/Html. If so, we already have plenty of tools for that.
I seriously could not tell. I don't know if I'm just not fully paying attention or they put more effort into this than needed.
Not true whatsoever.

Here's the definition as stated by Wikipedia, which I find to be pretty accurate and concise:

> Keynesian economics is the view that in the short run, especially during recessions, economic output is strongly influenced by aggregate demand (total spending in the economy).

This contrasts with the earlier theory that production creates demand.

And while Keynesian economics does suggest that the government should intervene in the economy, it's far from a command economy.
I think the point of this is to port existing apps. Microsoft has a lot of different technologies (like .NET with Xamarin) to build multiplatform apps going forward. But this helps Microsoft catch up to Android and iOS in terms of app availability now.
> I shouldn't have to care about this.

You don't have the privilege of not caring about, at least if you're in the position where you have to make decisions involving it. Quick: what's best, ints or strings? That entirely depends on how you want to use them, doesn't it?
Turbolinks 3 and ActionCable – Why Ruby on Rails Is Still the Choice
We have Go syntax highlighting today, but not Rust - but look for it in the next update!
Four tips to present your tech project better
You would think something like OCaml would fill in that niche with its wider availability.
Well, how else would windows software give you an option to decline to not skip disabling the installation of their system heath turbo-boost quick launch tray toolbar search engine registry cleaner by checking a box?
Your examples are instances of technology affecting employment, not effects of the minimum wage. And continuing to depress the cost of wages will not stop development of labor automation.
Visual Studio Online "Monaco" code editor from November 14, 2013 seems to be the predecessor: http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/a-quick-look-at-the-new-v... (scroll half way down for many screenshots and videos)

"This is the Monaco editor component from Erich Gamma's group out of Zurich. It was originally written in JavaScript but gradually rewritten in TypeScript. When Anders speaks about teams within Microsoft building large TypeScript systems, this is one he is talking about" as one comment mentioned on a related article "It's also used in VisualStudio and IE11's new F12 tools.":
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ARichNewJavaScriptCodeEditorSp...

"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.": https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs
What's a backdoor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_door says "a hidden method for bypassing normal computer authentication systems". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_%28computing%29 elaborates:

> A backdoor in a computer system (or cryptosystem or algorithm) is a method of bypassing normal authentication, securing unauthorized remote access to a computer, obtaining access to plaintext, and so on, while attempting to remain undetected.

What the government says is that they want access to the front door. They don't want a hidden method, and they don't want to remain undetected.

Ergo, they don't want a backdoor.

Why do you think they are the same things?

This essay says that that surface definition is incorrect, and explains why.
That's some good weed huh.
I'm not saying this would happen tomorrow. Microsoft has enough inertia to fire all their developers and just sell the current version of Windows and Office for a long time. Hell, some 30% of computer users in China still use Windows XP.

After a few generations raised on smartphones and tablets without any Microsoft apps, Microsoft Office would just be a curiosity their parents used, like Corel Draw or dBase.

Fortunately Microsoft has taken note; there's rumor of Android Office apps, and the latest version of the Surface tablet is quite popular.

Microsoft, and in particular, Office is still going strong, but the stranglehold it had in the 90's is gone.

--

Google may want businesses to pay, but going to docs.google.com and using your personal email address works just fine - much to the chagrin of IT departments everywhere.
Yep, that's what all Microsoft public betas and previews do. That's why they release them, to get data.
Heh, no, I just go by my real name. Well, I'm sort of in the process of merging my consulting business with a partner, but that's mostly just an organizational thing. The "moron4hire" handle is older than my freelancing and was meant to be a daily reminder to myself to be humble.
"Oh yes indeed. Just as Node.js and NIO proved to the world that bare-metal performance is always worth the consequent unreadable code"

Node.js is hardly bare metal and non-blocking IO is hardly new; Unix programmers have been writing select()/event-loop and poll()/epoll() servers for decades. The presentation of this false dichotomy between Node.js representing "bare-metal" at one end and readable code at the other suggests the author is some type of opinionated Ruby/Rails hipster programmer upset that his pet language and framework is falling out of favor, and in no small part because of its abysmal performance.
I think I was more blinded by rage, haha. This got me!
Ah. The trusty "No True Scottsman" fallacy...
Perhaps you should post this comment on Navarr News instead.
StackOverflow shower:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.708967,-74.006778,3a,90y,88....

Also, TIL Stack overflow runs IIS:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.708663,-74.006541,3a,42.9y,2...
The minimum wage is just really inefficient way to help people. I'd much rather see a large increase in the earned income tax credit (which directly helps those who need it most, without the distorting effects of a minimum wage) or an introduction of a basic income system.
Are there any experts here who can give a reason why error correction in quantum computing will scale polynomially or better?

I'm not sure what kind of scaling you mean in this context, but let me try to answer this.

I think the most important result in error correction is the threshold theorem, which (roughly) says that there exists an N such that if you have qubits that are basically error free for N gate operations, you can implement fault tolerant quantum computation. The particular threshold N depends on specifics of the architecture and error encoding that you use. What also depends on the encoding is the number M of logical qubits per physical qubit.

As far as I know, it is the case that once you've chosen an encoding, the number of physical qubits needed to realize Q logical qubits should just be MQ, so in that sense the scaling is linear. However, different encodings have wildly different thresholds. Shor's original code that could handle bit flip and phase errors had M=9, I believe, but I don't think the threshold was very good. For a long time, a popular figure quoted for the N you needed for error correction was ~10^4. I think there are state of the art codes ("surface codes") that can get the error threshold down to 10^2 or so, which is close to what's achievable in systems with small numbers of superconducting qubits (which is what IBM and Google are looking at.) But, the number M of physical qubits per logical qubit for a surface code is very, very high, I think on the order of 10^5. (It's been a while. EDIT: I got curious and looked up numbers from a 2012 paper; 10^4 is a better number here. That's still three orders of magnitude more qubits than is typical in state of the art circuits.) So in that sense, there is still a scaling problem.
Neato -- lots of JS code in: Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app

Try using it to view its own source code inside the app!
The Paul Krugman delusion: thinking a little or a lot more of the policies that have produced little to no improvement will suddenly work if we do it just one more time.
Or easier to install .NET on linux that it is on Windows for that matter...
> Instead of market forces washing out the misallocated capital, we've entered into a global extend-and-pretend scheme. How and when this ends is anyone's guess.

So while Krugman offers data and concrete, falsifiable predictions that generally prove correct - for example, that hyperinflation will not be a problem, that QE won't move the economic needle much (but is better than nothing), that interest rates will remain low for the foreseeable future despite claims to the contrary, you offer vague handwaving about capital misallocation and "distortions" and then tell us you can't answer how and when Krugman will actually be wrong.

Can you understand why people have difficulty coming to terms with your beliefs? To me it just seems rooted in some cognitive bias about suffering and sacrifice; it sounds like you just can't believe things are this easy, that we have to suffer and be punished for our vile profligacy.
I think it was across the board, but there might have been some nuances regarding level of education (primary vs higher) to it as well...it was a while back. I also remember being skeptical how exactly education level is measured in each country.
To get that growth, Japan massively debased the Yen, chopping down the Japanese standard of living and reduced the real value of all of that debt Japanese citizens are expecting to be paid back by the government.

If you have to significantly harm your currency to get growth, what you're getting is not actual growth, merely an illusion.
y equals sign 2x semicolon if open parentheses y greater than zero close parantheses, open braces...

of course it seems easier to you, after you've taken the time to learn a language and know the syntax by heart. Now do the same thing in a language and framework whose features you want to use but which you haven't learned yet.