skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money from where? Look at the graph of U.S. incarceration rate: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/U..... The inflection point is around 1975-1980--a response to a spike in crime that started in the 1960s. The first private prison operator (CCA) wasn't even founded until 1983 and even in the 1990's, it was losing money.

The whole "private prisons cause incarceration" shtick is the same as "umbrella sales cause rain." No, rain came first, umbrella companies came after as a way to profit from rain.
People who aren’t forced to use Java will choose Scala or other JVM langs, like Kotlin, Ceylon (a favorite of mine) or even Clojure.

C# the language is not exactly that exciting. I get it, it looks attractive next to Java, but it’s still a verbose, corporate-first, sort of thing. If anything, F# is much more competitive. Too bad it’s on CLR.
Additionally, 1.13 removes the [old AST backend](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/35764) so MIR will be on by default.
Definitely do a website first. If you want to promote your conference, it will be easier for people to share a link to your website, rather than to your mobile app. Also, everyone who can run a mobile app can visit your website, but not everyone who can visit your site (eg desktop users) can run your app.

A mobile app is a great idea, but it should be a bonus feature for attendees, after you've got the website fixed.

[Side note: I run a tiny website promoting a certain niche of conferences - I'm less likely to promote a mobile app in my email newsletter, because I'd feel an obligation to test your app first before linking to it & recommending it. A website is easy for me to check & verify & monitor for updates.]
There already is competition. GoG's Galaxy. It's great. Nobody I know uses it. Not a single streamer on twitch I've ever watch uses it. I'm fine with competition too, but not from Facebook. They've already fucked up with the Oculus store and I don't trust them anyway. Facebook is an unscrupulous advertisement company that turns intimate personal information into pay per click ad dollars.

I'd even go so far as to say Valve not caring is a good thing. They don't try to interfere too much and when they do and it blows up they walk it back.
Herds increase risks and are thus bad.

If your going to try and predict human behavior your better off using that when buying stock. AKA if you know the iPhone is going to win then buy Apple. Or if you bought Dell at IPO that's 500x returns over 12 years.
"Winning" is the wrong mode of thought. It's risk/reward. Index funds are low risk low reward, by design. Hedge funds are high risk high reward.

Put another way, Startups are just narrowly defined hedge funds. You can be adverse in investing in a risky startup and still be bullish about startups in general.
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You can already create that.

The problem is getting everyone else to configure their systems to use it.
>>I wonder how Uber drivers feel about working for a company that is actively trying to make them obsolete.

Why should they feel bad about anything. The very reason they have a job is because they believed disrupting the taxi license system was good.

What they did to others is being done to them. If that was ok, so is this.
It's not the engine, it's the devs. Unity is head and shoulders above UE4 nowadays. The problem is that it has made developing games so dead simple that anyone in their bedroom can release a game on Steam these days, and as a result there's a lot of garbage.
The Quakers invented solitary punishment.
see: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH. ssh is coming, likely in an official capacity in the future (this is an official MS group on github)
ip addr | awk '/inet / { print $2 }'
> I can teach pretty much anyone how to understand C in most likely a few days to a week.

I learned C from reading K&R over a Thanksgiving weekend, without even a compiler to try it out on. The only thing that confused me was the explanation of argc and argv.
> PowerShell to be an answer to a question nobody asked.

It's conceivable that people working in the MS World who have built up (or inherited) a base of PowerShell code are asking, "what would it take to run this on Linux, or at least some of it in some way?"

Of course programmers who don't currently work with the PowerShell at all are probably not asking "I want the PowerShell on Linux" in any significant numbers.
In Docker for Windows does each container run in separate VM?
> It validates according to your rule.

No. Read the rule again.
> Unity is powerful enough for 3D open world games (http://www.firewatchgame.com/).

I've tried Firewatch on both PC and PS4 and never gone through a playthrough that didn't have lag/performance issues even after the patches.

While Firewatch is often cited for what can be accomplished with Unity I don't think it's the gem to show the power of the engine when it can't even support the artistic vision the developers - they certainly know this engine well judging from talks they have given on the engine - tried to inject into it.
Wow your comment is bafflingly low quality and stupid. Perhaps you shouldn't have submitted it.
It's a great Acquihire. Uber immediately gets all this self-driving expertise.
And even if the driver is totally alert. It's unclear to me why a human would be able to handle the situation that the machine couldn't. The only way I could see this making sense is if there were just certain conditions the car couldn't self drive in such as if it was too rainy.
Connecting our API to Redux with higher-order functions
>I can only use this feature by using a .NET language.

It goes without saying that a binary interface requires use of a system that understands that particular binary interface. With .NET being open source though, anyone is free to write a bridge to using the objects in COBOL if they wanted to.

>I can't take the strongly typed objects into a Node.js script, or a perl script.

Yes, because they have no concept of strongly typed objects. You can convert objects to strings if you're using an incompatible tool/language. I don't know what your point is. Sorry..
These are good solutions.
Maintain flow at all costs.
The car's performance on a relatively small stretch of road in California is hardly indicative of its potential performance on millions of miles of varied roadways, terrain and climate that make up the rest of the world.
Operating systems are a huge pile of technical debt
> The Rift has outsold the Vive 10 to 1.

Cite? That'd require a million Rift CV1s sold, which seems excessive.
I was worried about that as well, but the change has been very positive. I've found modern C++ to be very productive to code in ('auto' and lambdas are huge) and the libraries I have direct access to now (vs. working through a compiled Node extension) have significantly improved my productivity relative to Node.js/TypeScript.

I'm currently evaluating moving a few other codebases I've built from TypeScript to C++.

The main thing that's made C++ work for us, though, has been embracing Bazel[0] as our build/package management system. I had no idea how big a difference that would make, but it's been huge and I would go so far as to say that without Bazel, we would have probably abandoned C++ (at least for our use cases).

We do still have a few services that are still written in Node.js, but these are micro-services that use a vendor's Node.js library to call some API—typically < 100 LOC each. They connect to our C++ server over a WebSocket and we message them with JSON (currently) as needed. So we're not 100% C++ right now, but all of the primary logic is in C++ today.

[0] http://bazel.io
Postman – Now available for Windows
In the Otto model, no. The driver would be asleep or otherwise not at the controls. Operators for long-haul trucking are essential. Performing maintenance, safety checks, and loading/unloading assistance will have to be done by humans in the near future. I would not be surprised if this was something that was not automated away in my lifetime.
> Did you feel that being able to list the free statements of accomplishment has some specific value to you as an employee or a job seeker?

I have never been in this situation (but I will be in near future), so take the following with a grain of salt. I think employers see Coursera Certificate of Accomplishments not as a qualification that I know the topic inside out. But having a Certificate of Accomplishment to show for MOOCs that I took is a clear sign to potential employers that I'm willing to invest a lot of my free time to learn about new topics on my own. Which shows willingness to learn, being able to work independently on hard topics on my own under difficult circumstances (only help in the forum instead of having a tutor etc.). This is something that I think employers like.

> Do you avoid reading books for educational purposes or watching videos on professional topics because you don't get a certificate for doing so?

I read lots of books for educational purposes. But I read them because I'm deeply interested in the topic. I will probably never get any monetary gain from it (as I said: certificate or it did not happen). Videos on professional topics are rather uncommon in German culture (as I see it in opposite to the US-American culture). One reason for this is indeed that they don't deliver a certificate.
Maybe we could have a licensing regime for a newly defined lobbying organization, and then delegate the licensing requirements to a federal agency who has unilateral and arbitrary authority to alter licensing compliance

one of which will be to drastically limit actions possible for lobbyists
That doesn't seem like a terrible dependency, is that the only reason?
This is thoroughly disgusting, but I guess now we at least know that Twitter is evil. Maybe we'll get a decentralized alternative to Twitter out of it.
I have no issue with the license.
Simpsons did it.
Well it is a competition, and not being citizens of the USA they aren't obliged to be politically correct.
The plan that was $35 for 5gb was pretty good though... twice that for "unlimited" doesn't seem like such a good deal unless you are hitting the limit.
> Steam game support for games that run on both the Rift and Vive make it stupid to buy games on the Oculus store, but worse than that once you've played with the touch controls and room scale that the Vive offers it's clear the Rift just does not compare.

Except that there are barely any VR games worth playing. When Oculus ships Touch later this year it will ship with 30+ games that support it. People have been complaining about Oculus exclusives, but without incentives it makes no financial sense for developers to invest in AAA VR games when the install base is so small.
I'd love the hear their justification for why this is going to lead to truckers getting paid more...
Not merged yet, but removing drop flags is a major milestone. So awesome
"text scraping seems barbaric by comparison"

"can't use all that power for much, since the pool of PS-compatible tools and utilities is much shallower than it is for Unix shells"

The explanations are obvious though... aren't they. Text might be barbaric, but every programming language in the world makes sending text to stdout dead easy. The unix shell utilities are smart to support that case.
FAIR open-sources fastText
Ugh. Steam is sluggish enough as it is, being implemented entirely in C++/QT. I cant even imagine how awful this would be.
Even when it's exclusively on Unity? I thought Unity's trade-off was ease-of-development for performance.
> Its two modes (shell mode and python mode), never quite knowing which one you're in, I could never quite get used to that.

Drive-by armchair comment: it seems like the obvious answer would be to change the prompt depending on what mode you're in?
> criminal defense attorneys

The National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys actively lobbies for drug law reform, sentencing reform, and against civil forfeiture, mandatory minimums, the death penalty, and overcriminalization: https://www.nacdl.org/criminal-defense/death-penalty. [1] They're on the front lines of trying to reform the justice system, and your proposal would silence them (because you could just as easily say they "benefit" from those reforms because their clients do).

[1] And the bar as a whole is probably way to the left of the average person on criminal justice issues.
Thanks!

The model predicts that areas in which there is little evidence one way or the other available are the ones where incorrect beliefs could be sustained, particularly when the belief is held by those around you.

I guess one interesting characteristic of certain superstitions is that people will avoid the scenario that they think will lead to a bad outcome, so they actually don't collect personal evidence discrediting that superstition.

This line of argument suggests that positive superstitions should be less persistent than negative superstitions, though I am not sure if that is true.
Sounds mostly like gibberish to me, sorry to say it.

> By the 90s, hedge funds were back, this time capitalising on advances in sheer computing power that permitted real-time pricing of instruments in volumes never previously possible. By introducing more and more complex derivatives and so increasing the difficulty of pricing the market, hedge funds managed to maintain this source of alpha almost until 2000.

There are very few funds who make a living pricing complex derivatives. I used to work in a couple of funds that traded derivatives, and quite often we had to explain to people what volatility trading was. Generally, the more complex it is, the more the market maker will charge you in spread for trading it.

It's also not computing power that allows you to make money trading them. A few numerical PDE solvers do not take a huge amount of computing power (or indeed data) to calculate. The people who make money off it are the ones who manage to sell a product to a client at a price the client doesn't understand. I wouldn't use "complex derivatives" as speculation vehicles ("I'm bullish/bearish -> trade") in themselves.

> Even as the market caught up and the potential for alpha withered for hedge funds in the early 2000s, these newly-technically-savvy funds shifted their focus to speed; driving in the era of the hyper-successful HFT firm that drew massive, riskless profits from the sheer speed at which they could capitalise on arbitrage opportunities.

HFT firms are not hedge funds. I'm sitting in the offices of one right this minute, writing code for a strategy. It's not something outside people can invest in. I wouldn't say the profits are riskless either, they're just not traditional risks that you list in a finance course.

> The winners in this market will require many of the skills that have been required before - deep market understanding, strong technical competence and grounded, balanced leadership - but they will also require a new skill; the ability to acquire, make sense of and apply these new data sets.

Gibberish. You need to know what you needed to know, but also to be open to new situations?

There's no discussion here of how various styles generate their alpha. What do macro guys do? Surely not complex derivatives and HFT? What about special situations? And activists?
I'm not sure how to respond but I feel compelled to do so. I've never seen your assertions in practice anywhere I've worked in the past 15 years. Sure, at some places people who rise to the top only care about the outcome of the bottom line but never have I seen executive leadership or even middle management who only cares about spreading misery. I could see this being the case at entry level jobs where you're 16 and have an immature 18-20 year old manager but not in the adult world. Maybe you've had a bad experience or two but I don't think your characterization is accurate here.
It's a perfectly valid, though unintended, reading of what I wrote.
All those sysadmins would have been perfectly happy with just a properly working unix like shell.
Uber already has plenty with its ATC in Pittsburgh (the core engineers were hired from CMU's robotics lab). I'm guessing Otto has expertise specific to the trucking domain. At supposedly $680M, it seems like a high price.
I was thinking of the Otto Cycle, which occurs in most internal combustion engines (except the Prius and some Mazdas, which use the Atkinson cycle). I suspect that's where they get the name but they don't seem to have an About page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_cycle
>Windows is on life support and they know this.

How is Windows "on life support"? Desktop/laptop computers are not going anywhere, at least until they invent some kind of VR (and no, mobile OSes like iOS are not suitable for doing real work and managing data in a networked environment the way desktop OSes are). Windows still has at least 90% of the OS market. People and businesses could change to an alternative, but they just aren't, and they aren't going to unless something really drastic happens to force them to (and this would likely have to include many popular applications also providing support for one or more of the alternatives). In the business/enterprise world at least, there is simply no indication that Windows is in any danger at all of losing marketshare or revenue, in fact it's probably going to increase since businesses seem to love the software-as-a-service model.

MS could probably just make Windows free for home users (and make even money on them with advertising and selling telemetry data and also support calls), maybe small business users too, and then soak the big businesses with high fees for their site licenses and SaaS and other services.
I think the evolution will be using self driving features as a pure backup safety feature until they get good enough to go fulltime on their own.
Just curious, but is there any mass-market decentralized service that is actually widely used by normal people?
My app: IPromise – new super simple self-motivation tool
Most importantly, the finished MIR revolution [0] will finally allow developers to focus on new exciting features, like ergonomic "impl Trait" [1], incremental compilation, or even the beginnings of Gc [2].

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/35764

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/34511

[2]: http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/08/18/gc-support-in-r...
Please elaborate on the complaints. What about the directives do users consider problematic?
What are possible use cases for a device like this? (I didn't downvote you and I don't know why anyone would)
> $865 dollars

Ah, that well known unit, the dollar^2
Hi. IPromise creator here.

If you've got any questions, problems or suggestions or ideas, please comment. I'll be around to respond.
Intend to spend this years Christmas holidays catching up on Rust.
IIRC correctly, the major PowerShell push started with Win Server 2008, and headless server mode (no desktop). A lot of WinX sysadmins pissed their pants that they couldn't use GUI's to control everything, and PowerShell was pushed as the way to do server management w/o GUI's (crazy, I know).
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Decentralization.

Those of us in the rest of the world would like our DNS to continue to function, even if the US does not.

It doesn't make sense to have something as global as the internet controlled by the government of just one country.
>Which is human-made and not a property of the universe

Precisely my point.

>it can be changed very easily.

It would seem this is not the case, though I wish it was.
Get-CobolFingers -Variant=Microsoft -Payoff=MuchLessThanAdvertised
You don't get source with unity unless you pay a lot, and that's incredibly unlikely to change.
This is immoral, and amounts to censorship. The moment we believe an idea is too dangerous for our citizens to express is the day American democracy dies.

Yes, Twitter is a non-governmental entity and has the legal right to do whatever it wishes. But that does not make their decision any less wrong.

It also does not matter how incendiary the accounts were. You may be burning Mein Kampf instead of On Liberty, but you're still burning books.

Edit: Changed "private" to "non-governmental" to prevent confusion.
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Are you suggesting that small crafty borrowers spend the money on something besides the mortgaged house? I think that would be fraud. Or maybe you're just saying they should sell the house quickly? How would that profit?
They certainly mention safety, but don't seem to suggest that the safety is due to the driver overriding the auto-pilot in emergencies. I do agree with your point, but they could be making the argument that the danger prevented from when the system is operating nominally will be much greater than the danger caused by the driver handoff in low confidence scenarios.
Would have been better if editorial/positioning was separated from facts via subject headings.
How to Convert Customer Wrath and Anger into Business Growth and Opportunity
I ported a bunch of COM to Linux in the late 1990's. Not DCOM with the full RPC, but just in-process COM. I had .so shared libs with DllMain and DllCanUnload now in them, I had CoCreateClass, I had a significant part of the registry API implemented in terms of a text file store (HKEY_LOCAL_USER being in the home directory, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE somewhere in /etc, ...) and such. IUnknown, QueryInterface, AddRef, Release, ...
Here is the same project, done in PHP in less then 5 minutes...

$split_by_whitespace = explode(file_get_contents('exaample.txt')," ");
$circular = array();
for ($i=0;$i<count($split_by_whitespace);$i++) {
array_push(array_shift($split_by_whitespace));
$circular[]=$split_by_whitespace;
}
sort($circular);
print_f($circular);

While I am sure there a lot of interesting use cases for Racket, but when it comes to processing array data, I'll take PHP everytime.
the "protection" against negative equity is the down payment. negative equity only matters if incomes take a hit and sales are forced.
AFAIK the MIR isn't on in 1.11 yet.
Ah. I use the standard emac'esque commands to move over by word. alt+b for back word, alt+f for forward word. Not at all intuitive... windows line movement commands win over emacs bindings form an intuitive perspective.

Also you don't need these to get up/down to work:

"\e[C": forward-char
"\e[D": backward-char

Those are for left/right arrows.
>The Rift has outsold the Vive 10 to 1. And the Gear has sold over a million units.

Completely false. Vive has outsold CV1 2:1 so far. Best approximate numbers right now are 50,000 Rifts to 100,000 Vives.
That doesn't work either.

[kapil@localhost ~]$ ip addr | awk '/inet / { print $2 }'
127.0.0.1/8
192.168.128.236/24
[kapil@localhost ~]$

You guys are just proving my point. _I_ already know how to do it using bash. Its just that using objects and querying properties is far simpler. And I just took a random example because its a common thing that someone would want to do.