skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it isn't a hard limit. I am okay with a 25 line script for example ;)

Well really you are more right than me. It is about complexity more than the number of lines. However for the most part the longer something is the more complex it is to work with even if it does something simple. Managing a 1000 line bash script is almost certainly going to be more painful than doing it "properly" in Python or Java or whatever.

It mostly comes to do this for me "is this thing going to be something I need to understand and manage outside of my own little bubble?" if it is then I want it to be better designed/maintained and I find that gets easier as I work "down the chain".
I would hope it's also meant to put vbscript out to pasture as well.
Patents in Open Source Licenses and the Facebook (React.js) Patent Clause
Most novels in the history of the world have been written using exclusively open-source tools.
Is there an actual app here, or is this just a website describing something that would be nice to have right now?
TWLO was doing $60 a share last time I checked, up from $10. :)
I think this is the main reason that, pretty much, only technical founders seem to succeed at finding good exits (I know there are exceptions), they're very aware of this issue.

I have worked with non-technical founders who just don't understand that concept of a mythical man-month and technical debt. Unless you've lived through it, it just sounds like engineers whining, not a valid business liability. All the non-technical founders I've worked with fall into the trap of catering to their board at all costs.
That's a carefully parsed statement -- less risk. True.

But I don't think that we're cool with the idea that because the number of humans threatened by an accident is reduced by somewhere between 50 and 20%, it's okay for flagrantly unsafe cars to be on the road.
Agreed, and hopefully, this can be the first of many such reforms. The headline makes it sound like an end, rather than a start.
Talking with the New Stack about DevOps at ChefConf 2016
No, he didn't ask for it. Where did you read that?
>For instance, on Windows I could press the up arrow through my history 20x to find a group of commands I want to run, press Enter, then press DOWN for the following command, then enter, then DOWN until I run them all. In Bash, I need to press UP 20x every single time.

I know other users have addressed this issue in other comments with solutions, but you do know this isn't an issue with Bash so much as it is with readline, right? There are plenty of ways to customize readline/inputrc to make it do what you want. There's even linenoise, if you hate readline for what it is. It wouldn't matter how good Bash got as a shell language, this scenario wouldn't be any easier unless readline also gets a facelift.
How patio11's Appointment Reminder's revenue grew from $29 to $12000/mo
> “Blockchain, the ledger software that makes the digital currency possible”

Huh? The blockchain is a name for a feature of the Bitcoin protocol. It's not a piece of software and it's not a proper noun.

But you'd be forgiven for not knowing that, given the constant hype about “blockchains” these days and their use as a hammer to try and hit every imagined nail. There's also a company named after it, which is a proper noun.

The blockchain, incidentally, is not mentioned in the Bitcoin white paper,[0] which refers to a “proof-of-work chain”. “Blockchain”, as a word, was merely internal jargon to refer to Bitcoin's specific implementation of this concept.

[0] https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf
Which email can do just fine, if you set up yours that way.
There's actually quite a lot of new construction in London, to the extent that some areas have a serious glut with many many years' worth of supply sitting on the market not selling.

The problem here isn't just that what's being built is unaffordable - although it definitely is that - but that it's not what inhabitants want. It's being built to appeal to mostly Asian investors who like shiny high-rise newbuild and will probably never even see their purchases, much less live in them, so you end up with minuscule unit sizes, poor build quality, overheating, insufficient elevators and boilers, all the obvious corners to cut.

Not sure what you mean by "mere normal people who had 150k to put down for a mortgage" - with median London incomes somewhere around £30k, needing a £150k deposit doesn't sound especially normal-friendly. If you meant total price, yes, now you're talking.
Can I write tools that use PowerShell and .NET objects in non-.NET languages, like Python or Perl (using the C implementations, not a .net python)? Like, is there an API that I can implement to interact to implement PowerShell-like "native" tools?
I agree, there's been a lot of churn in the PS versions and it makes it hard. Especially when you're new to it and trying to learn.
Yes. FHA and the GSEs pool mortgages from banks, stamp them with their guarantee, and then sell the loan pools as MBS to investors.

(Most) banks, especially small ones, are unwilling to sell and hold a fixed rate 30 year mortgage. There's way too much risk, price volatility (driven by rates) and uncertainty about what will happen over a 30 year time period.

Banks only do a 30 year mortgage because they know they can sell it to FHA or the GSEs.
Contact me[0] and I can put you in touch with someone who can help.

[0] my email is on foundrs.com
It's been something I've used for many years, so I really don't recall any more just where I found out about it...
The Subtle Tyranny of Blockchain
I think you are right to some extent, the Irish were definitely "racialised" in 19th century britain and considered essentially subhuman.

There was a potato famine in the Highlands of Scotland as well as Ireland, so it did hit Britain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Potato_Famine

And we can see that "prompt and major charitable efforts by the rest of the United Kingdom ensured that there was relatively little starvation" - but that similar to in Ireland, "The terms on which charitable relief was given, however, led to destitution and malnutrition amongst its recipients".

I guess in the mainland UK the scale was far smaller, but it didn't stop an extremely laissez faire and heartless response from government authorities.
I would think a government run prison would be more amenable to public pressure to reform and change, as opposed to a free market solution.
Case in point: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrupt.jud...
The implicit return semantics are insane, since you can implicitly early-exit when you do things like call ArrayList.Add (which returns a bool to indicate whether the thing was added).
> Without an understanding of probability, linear algebra and differential equations, there would have been no quantum mechanics. Somebody observing the photoelectric effect could not have developed those tools for their "application".

I disagree strongly, and history might too. For example, Heisenberg invented matrix multiplication for quantum mechanics. In general, physicists have been very happy to invent entire fields of mathematics (eg, calculus!) for their direct application. At the very least, I think you're overselling your point.

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/185954/when-exactly-and-wh...
Argument to authority and argument to expertise are two different things.
Nah, why should they?

Developers are pretty much the only demographic that might realistically switch operating systems, so they only really need to cater to them. The rest, they can pretty much treat however they want, and they won't lose them as customers.
Uber purchases autonomous truck driving startup Otto
Since it's only come out not all 3rd party scripts are going to available straight away.

but there are standard http post/get/put commands so you can write your own.
this is the original post referenced by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12313406
Forgetting that this is a bus, it is still a confined space containing members of the public. You need an attendant of some sort to deal with unusual situations (ie fires). Even the most advanced and sensor-filled Disney ride still requires a human being to monitor the behaviour of the other human beings.
The point of PowerShell isn't just to write scripts but to work as an interactive shell.
> They raise millions, and for a set period of time the people who gave them the millions cannot pull it out, allowing them to execute strategies that may not make any money for several years, which is different from a traditional investment organization

That's not the most accurate. Many (most?) hedge funds don't lock funds for any significant amount of time; the most would be a few months, and even that not because they hold illiquid investments, but because they want to discourage investors that react too emotionally on market moves. I'm guessing your description is more appropriate for VCs and Private Equity.

Hedge Funds do, however, execute strategies not available to "traditional" instituational investors, but that is mostly because of regulatory constraints - e.g. index tracking funds can advertise to the public, hold pension investments etc., whereas hedge funds can't. Another difference is that hedge funds usually have a much broader investment mandate - e.g. a bond mutual fund has to invest the majority of its AUM into bonds, even if everyone believes bond prices will drop, whereas a hedge fund could simply sell everything and keep cash or buy stock or whatever its managers believe will make money. The flip side of this is that "traditional" investment institutions are measured against benchmarks (e.g. if a bond fund makes -20% in a year when a bond index made -21%, the bond fund "outperformed"), but hedge funds are measured absolutely (profit is good, loss is bad) and get paid peanuts if they don't make a profit.
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jk

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More seriously though, I 100% like the decision to have children.

1. I'm a father of two. I work, and my wife stays home.

2. An alternative would be both of us working, except for my wife stops working for a while when our kids are born.

3. Another alternative would be both of us working, and paying for child care.

Each of these have trade-offs. But whatever way we go, I'm not selfish enough to force everyone to pay for my decision.
The truth about working for Deliveroo, Uber and the on-demand economy
How the VPN industry is creating its stake in online gaming
ls and grep are aliases in powershell, so not exactly the same, but pretty close

For your first question: you have converted types.
When you did a ConvertTo-Json, you serialized the System.IO.DirectoryInfo type into JSON compatible data. When you ConvertFrom-Json you have a PCSCustomObject.

The conversion to CSV is different for the System.IO.DirectoryInfo than the PSCustomObject.
This has to do with the sub-types (converting from objects into serializable JSON objects). It also appears to handle time strings differently as well.
This would require passengers to be licensed drivers
Yes, it's quite useful in practice, because the alternative is knowing exactly the format of text some command is going to produce and munging it, which is hardly better
So many strongly typed shells exist already. I don't understand why arbitrary microsoft shit gets so much love for doing things that have already been done in the OSS world, and doing them poorly. PowerShell is a pile of shit.
Why Developers Are Flocking to Amazon’s Alexa
I decided to wait for Zen months ago. I sure hope its worth it. My plan is zen beast for vr gamedev/play (on linux, not windows) Cant VR without the computer to support it, and 90fps keeps the VR discomfort away.
Why go is awesome for building security clients
Here comes Mega City One, or the BAMA.
Well, yeah, but I mean the concept (grepping in tabular data).

If, hypothetically, bash had database integration, ls Columns would probably return something like

foo	varchar	30	NOT NULL
bar	decimal	8
baz	int	4

Which would be a royal PITA to search for anything in—if I were to search for ‘int’ I'd get all int columns and any columns with int in the name….

I could've used an example involving process lists, but I didn't want to trigger PTSD in anyone who's had to grep the output of ‘ps’ for anything non-trivial. (Plus, the database thing was something I actually did a few days ago.)
Pipe anything to Get-Member. For example:

(ls)[0] | gm

will list every field and its type on a File object. Wicked easy.
Very interesting! This is also my first time hearing of GitBook. Thank you for the link!
Along the same lines, for Linux and MacOS: https://github.com/geophile/osh
Imagine for a second that the DB can't do it and you need to filter the STDOUT output.
You're conflating two things here. The United States, despite it's many flaws (one of them being surveillance) has a pretty sterling record on freedom of speech. This predated the internet, and has survived, possibly even strengthened, in the face of a massive proliferation in the average person's ability to spread ideas and (mis)information.

You can rightfully criticize the surveillance state that has arisen, but it's just wrong to try and paint freedom of speech as an offshoot of that. Or even, frankly, to criticize the US stance on freedom of speech (unless you think it's too broad).
Which is a situation much more complicated than a holier-than-thou one liner. You're also forgetting that innocent men are killed in the strikes too, which is just as tragic (or maybe more tragic since apparently nobody cares about them).
Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity
Exactly this. From TFA, this is federal prisons only, and affects precisely 13 prisons. That just leaves the other ~130 private state prisons.

The plummeting stock will rebound the moment the market stops panicking, and some vultures will make a killing. It's big business, and they won't go quietly into the night.
Wild Close-Ups of Computer Chips Look Like Intricate Cities
It is not a Microsoft website.
SDN API and Protocols: ForCES
I hear echoes of https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/. The argument that open protocols become effectively static after adoption is compelling, but I wonder if perhaps we can do better.
What? Markdown is WAY better to write in than HTML, and there are a bajillion converters if worse came to worst
I totally respect that the subjects of this article are trying to retrain themselves for well-paying careers. What's weird to me though is how many of them, even after observing family economic difficulties, studied things that could never result in a non-poverty life and ran up huge financial loan burdens.

"Seattle, where she came after college in Utah to study musical theater"

"She counts the months until the tech job she hopes to get after Ada can help pay off the $22,000 student debt she has left."

"...studied philosophy and the history of science at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., has had jobs as a barista, a taxi dispatcher and a deli worker. She has $72,000 of student debt and has never been paid an annual wage, she said, of more than $17,000."

I'm a history and philosophy of science and technology person myself, but it's never paid or pretended to.
Google's Project Tango: All you need to know
Buy and hold is fine, but that's a strategy like buying Blue Chip stocks. Early 2000s real estate was like the options market -- super short term.

If you can hold a house 10 years, chances are very, very good you won't be underwater at the end.
> doesn't lead to greater freedom, but greater scale, bureaucracy, and increased governance at a distance

Interesting point given the parent comment (quoted). I'd assume the East India Company, regardless of size, still operated in a fairly federated/independent manner. You can't very well micromanage across 4-6 months travel time.
The new new economy
No, an appeal to authority is when you say that because someone is an authority in one area, they should be listened to in another. In this case, this is her focus of study. I'm sorry if you think it's fallacious, but I'm gonna give the person who has studied the subject a little more weight than some rando on the internet.
I want to throw my support behind scsh!

It's useful for those things that cross the boundaries between a program, and a shell script. I've found once you need functions for a shell program, it's time to step up to scsh.

I also wish scsh ports were more well maintained so people could use their favorite schemes with scsh syntax, but it's quite a large codebase to port, so remember that it's scheme48 scheme.
What if I clean insults onto the side of your dirty car?
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It's often said that you won't be a programmer until you understand pointers, but my own experience was the other way around: I didn't understand pointers until after I had been programming in languages like C# and Java for a long time.

I had first started out in C, hacked around for a while, even made a few simple programs. But I wasn't ever able to get very far with it. My first Java app had me doing GUI programming right away and I was making things a lot faster than I could have ever done in C.

The problem was, there are two things a beginner needs to learn: how to solve problems with programming, and the particular programming language they are using. So I think it's best to keep one of those things very, very simple. And you tend to lose a lot of people from boredom if that thing is the types of problems you're solving. So we have to default to the language being simple.

Pointers and memory management are an implementation detail. They are important, but they aren't the job. The job is fulfilling requirements. Some days the requirements might be "fit inside this tiny box of memory", but it's far more likely to be "so, like, when I click on the link, the screen flickers. <you mean a new page loads?> Yeah, whatever, just make it stop flickering."
Curious if Microsoft has been contacted.
If you mean the economic burden, yes, but I don't think they need to bear all the burden

My big complaint with private prisons, as they stand today, is that they tend to get paid based on heads and beds. As such, prisons are rewarded when prisoners behave badly (extending their stay), and when former prisoners reoffend (repeating their stay). There are no countervailing economic pressures.

If we want prisons to work, we need the economics to work in favor of societal goals. Everything else equal, a prison that generates low recidivism should get paid more than one that generates high recidivism, because they're eliminating future costs.
A Model Physicist
I love messengers to keep in touch, but that's just about the only notification I will get.

Facebook is fantastic for keeping up with people's personal details and messaging friends boh old and new. But having the newsfeed be forcefed down your fucking throat is the worst.

The newsfeed is like emotional garbage straight down the esophagus. It doesn't feel too pretty.

So Facebook Newsfeed Eradicator did wonders for me! All the good parts of Facebook, without the shit. It's glorious.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
Whyd (YC S16) Is a Beautiful, Voice-Controlled Speaker for Audiophiles
I think they were great. Brazil did a great job given the circumstances. Boo-ing was the only thing that could have been totally avoided.
Many people in the bay area romanticize San Francisco. They don't know any better.

Not that they're stupid, there's nothing north or east of SF, and NYC is very far away. Much dilution on what an actual global city is.
Seems like the "watch" feature is what makes this idea interesting. You receive batched updates for a channel when you're not paying attention to it, and if both participants in the channel are paying attention, then you receive real-time messages. You're limited in the number of channels you can pay attention to.

I don't really see what's stopping Messenger, Slack, et al. for adding a "work" or "focus" mode that achieves this trivially though.
Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_graffiti
Once the economic advantages were outweighed by the political disadvantages.

"while nearly all other countries in the world at the time were totally fine with it". I guess this depends on how you define "country", but lets take it to mean the majority of a population. I'll give you that countries benefiting from the slave trade were clearly fine with it. I sincerely doubt the populations being enslaved were though. (their opinions count right?)
Does anyone know whether this DOJ order also covers the facilities used for detaining undocumented immigrants?
Cache coherency might not necessarily be an issue if they treat each Cores->L3 pair as a NUMA node. I don't think they are doing that since we probably would have already heard about it if they are, but AMD has done crazier things before, and they are pretty good at NUMA architectures.
insane in a good way right? You aren't "returning" you are emitting to the pipeline
I was just about to try that exact series of steps to see how things went.
"Thus 500k 800 sq ft bungalows"

This may sound cynical but that is one of the fair markets that likely will not fall. These are luxery that are likely only to be bought and sold to people looking for vacation spots or a crashpad. Much more likely to be paid off than a 4 bedroom in the midwest bought by a hardworking train engineer and his wife working part time in a restaurant.

"We've self influcted a system wherevy the greater fools are those found holding worthless CDOs"

I really appreciate the hot potato analogy! Exactly what I was thinking.
This is why I find PowerShell to be an answer to a question nobody asked. If bash/zsh isn't cutting it for you, drop into something like Python, Ruby or Perl to do the heavy lifting.

PowerShell will never accumulate a library as comprehensive as what any of those three have, each has had decades to accumulate packages of all kinds, and more are still being added.

It's odd, but not surprising given their history of "Not Invented Here", that Microsoft never even considered using Python or Ruby when they both have .Net implementations. Their enthusiasm for JavaScript wasn't sufficient for them to embrace that either.
That's a good idea. I think I'll do that on the next post.
Insane are the people who look at that stock and say, "that's a good investment"...
Well, It's a buffalo breaking down your notes into manageable pieces.
Keeping the car in its lane amounts to keeping it from hitting anything. In any case - lane markers or not - controlling the car on shared roadways requires localizing it in terms of its environment. A high-fidelity map of the environment improves the localization accuracy that can be achieved from noisy sensors. If the map is more accurate, you can tolerate more noise from the sensors.
Respectfully disagree. I've been writing full-on applications using Python and Qt4 which are well over 100 lines of code.
Amen. Having used Windows Server and various Unixes, I much prefer Windows.
Moz is doubling down on search (and lays off 60)
That makes a ton of sense, I was being blinded by the average revenue not thinking about that fact that their revenue probably has an 80/20 distribution. I wonder if you assumed that there was a pareto distribution of their users what you'd need to do to compute how much the top 10/20% are spending per year (I'm kind of stumped on that one).
Its worse than that he scammed many people with Ripple in past, then he proceeded to rebrand as Stellar (and somehow suckered in the guys from Stripe who are being very qiuet about it now) and is repeating the same steps as before.