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Its ecosystem isn’t. C# will never get accepted as an open source product. It only has open source code, it’s not actually ‘open-source.’ Compare it with Typescript, which—despite originating from Microsoft—is a truly open project, and getting love left and right.

C# might be better than Java/JVM, but it’s not better enough. The culture/ecosystem barrier is so high that C# would have to be miles ahead, technically superior in every way, to overcome it. I do hate the “worse is better” adage, but there’s no mistaking it, it applies here.

It’s just too little, too late.

But Typescript is awesome, keep it up.

Ironically, Google’s competitor (Closure Compiler) has actually been unsuccessful for similar reasons. To this date its main repo is just a clone of the internal master. For whatever reason they’ve never attempted to rebase on open-source release.
Oh yeah. It's a big industry:

http://www.ussif.org/sribasics
Wow, that is really weird to me.

In Houston, on I-10, there are some on ramps with stop lights to control the amount of traffic entering but they are not always used and are turned off when freeway traffic is traveling at speeds. Additionally you still have some space to accelerate which it looks like isn't available here.
They did? That sounds pretty awful, but I don't see .book listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
Yannis's Law: Programmer Productivity Doubles Every 6 Years
It does if friend Y starts retweeting those kinds of messages. Or if you happened to follow a dormant account that has since been commandeered by IS. There's a million ways for those kinds of messages to enter your stream.
This. If you start with a 'usual bro-split' where you work out each 'muscle-group' once a week, you won't see anything like the progress you'll see on SS or SL5x5 if you're a complete beginner.

Even at an advanced beginner/intermediate stage it's still better to work each 'muscle-group' twice a week.
Maybe it went something like "god damn it why can't I ctrl+v to copy, what other ctrl keys are there..."? And now I'm looking at http://ss64.com/bash/syntax-keyboard.html and being amazed I didn't know about / forgot a few of these. It'd be nice to put some of the good ones on a coffee mug, I first learned useful vim commands from a coffee mug...
I wish the article would stop using "Icann" for ICANN. Who proof-read this article?
From Zero to a Million: Do You Really Want to Become a CEO?
This was the one flaw in the otherwise excellent FBI and Pennsylvania Attorney General investigations.

They never should have allowed the number of jointly tried cases that they did. They used joint prosecution as a tactic, combining lesser hard-to-prove charges against one defendant with severe charges against another in the same trial, relying upon the strength of the evidence against one defendant to damn them both.

Regardless, their investigation was very beneficial in the long run. Low-level corruption used to be endemic in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, until the Federal government came to town. Following the "Kids for Cash" case, the area became the subject of a wide-ranging inquiry into official abuse of office.

By the time the dust settled, close to two dozen officials were criminally charged, including a state senator, a very wealthy commercial real estate developer, and two county commissioners.
That is a world I'd like to live in. Such people suffer from a principal/agent problem - they gain more from the government as employees/contractors/etc than as citizens, so their interest is primarily in having more money funneled to them as employees. For this reason, restricting their lobbying/voting/etc activity as one of the terms of receiving government money is perfectly reasonable.

The EFF, in contrast, has no such conflict of interest. Any organization which does not take government money is just a consumer of government services. Their interest is the same as everyone else's - encouraging the government to do the best job possible.
Higher-level languages avoid this by hiding it in a platform-specific compiler or VM, which in turn limits the number of platforms the code can actually be run on.

False. Squeak Smalltalk runs with a bit-identical model on a ridiculous number of platforms. (which is to say OS/ISA combinations) Though to be fair, it accomplished this trick by having the VM written in a Smalltalk subset that gets translated into C, which is then compiled by local compilers.
Will they have the same sales though? After buying Ryse for $3 and filling my game library for 300+ titles on a very limited budget, I don't think about switching to any other game store.
I believe Unbeliever69 is referring the difficulties involved in finding jobs or housing once you have a criminal record. That isn't just 'policies', that is the result of the individual actions people take. There certainly are exceptions, but those exceptions tent to prove the rule.
I feel a similar question would be "I wonder why anyone chooses to write on Twitter over their own microblog." Medium's inherent social component makes it much easier to find an audience if you don't have one already.
Great to see Northeastern's computer science program represented on Hacker News
The default regex functionality is absolutely terrible (maybe this can now be fixed with a PR). You'd write your own cmdlet[1]. A few things are demonstrated in the cmdlet: functions that take pipes, functions that return pipes, anonymous functions, actions to perform before processing a pipe and dynamic objects. The Powershell syntax gets ridiculed for being ugly, but it's beautifully expressive.

> Can I take the value, convert it to string, make some magic on it and convert it to another object entirely?

Get-ChildItem *.js | Get-Content | Select-Regex 'require\("(?<Require>.*?)"\)' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Require

In other words: find JS files | read lines | turn regex capture groups into an object (another object entirely) | select a single capture

Ultimately, Microsoft provides WMI cmdlets[2]. You'd have strong types from the get-go and wouldn't need resort to this string silliness.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jcdickinson/cee4582448300c0d404bbff1...
[2]: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176860.aspx
Florida judge and jury, Florida celebrity plaintiff, NY defendant, A.J. Daulerio acting, umm, very unsympathetically?
I think that gets you part way there...
It's much less surprising when you review the highlight of the testimony: https://youtu.be/Ub80kHh5WDI?t=73

That was said under oath in front of a judge and jury. Makes it rather hard to take people ranting about "chilling effect on the press" seriously, doesn't it?
The government can choose to do that (in those cases, sell off the property). Not private prison operators. The issue of property rights, not the inherent concepts.
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Zooming way out, when groups appear to hold irrational beliefs even while containing some rational members, any insights on what sort of conditions need to be put in place for groups to become more rational over time?
Ford’s Road to Full Autonomy
No I'm not.

It has nothing to do with whether the hashing algorithm is "fixed" or not, it has to do with what you're hashing.

The thing being hashed (according to BEP0003) is the bencoded form of the info value from the metainfo file. What's the "info" value? Why it's a list of dictionaries that (are also bencoded) contain:

* pathnames for each file
* the length of each file
* a list of hashes for each chunk of each file
* whatever else you want: the thing is extensible.

If you can introduce whatever you want, you can start with something valid, and introduce invalid chunks until it collides. If you can do this, you can force a collision for around £150k and a month[2].

[1]: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html

[2]: https://sites.google.com/site/itstheshappening/
I always look for something that requires too much time to do or something that is very manual in nature. I ask myself how often I do this, and if it is often enough, I consider it.

Even if you see something that looks like you are interested in building, they could have solved it in a completely different manner than you would have. There is still some merit in taking on the challenge yourself.
Secondary to the content I was surprised that something like this was posted to LinkedIn.
Check out Freescale and Renesas solutions. They are major automotive SoC players. The Renesas R-Car platform does integrate a dual-core Power-VR GPU:

https://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/fact_sheet/IMX6S...

https://www.renesas.com/en-us/solutions/automotive/products/...
Why is it impossible?
What am I missing building projects with VS or xbuild?
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Read this link: http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

It's a good mix between high-level and highly-detailed.
Chart-doctor/Visual-vocabulary.pdf
Writing in VIM
Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain (2008) [pdf]
Correct, which is essentially what I said in my comment. But this article talked about free speech, and everytime this issue comes up, people start moaning that their right to free speech is being inhibited, apparently not realizing or caring that they have no such right on a privately owned and operated platform. That's why I brought it up.
Show HN: Kev – S3 and Redis as Datastores (with Redis Indexing)
You do know that the public needs to seek out these public posts on twitter, ya? And if not twitter than snapchat, instagram or any number of others. Silencing ideas is not a winnable strategy. It just isn't. It completely absolves the "naive youth" - and their parents - from responsibility.

> The constant bombardment of war front posts in your timeline is definitely riling up people to go fight a war that is not theirs.

Are you talking about my twitter timeline in specific? Fight a battle that is not who's? Mine? New Yorkers? Americans? Westerners? Freedom lovers? Christians? Muslems? Jews? Who am I riling up? Anyone who reads my posts? Are you riled up? Please think carefully before volunteering for overseas duty. Perhaps I need a disclaimer?
I wonder what goes on in the minds of politicians and people alike when they campaign against something like Medicaid expansion. I'd like to think they don't realize they are campaigning for the deaths of many of their neighbors, but I cannot. I can only imagine extreme cruelty and indifference to life and suffering. I assume this is what drives this kind of hate in America, especially in the south. Otherwise why would anyone turn down an almost fully federally funded health program that helps the poor? Other than hate for the poor, hate for foreigners, hate of other peoples' enjoyment of life, there do not seem to be other logical explanations for such viewpoints.

The people that campaigned for and ultimately defeated the Medicaid expansion in many states should have to spend the rest of their lives without health insurance or proper health care. They are the ones who should be slowly dying and watching as existing cures pass them on by. They are the ones who deserve to suffer for their hate and cruelty.
I always found it amazing that people would bitch up a storm about private prisons when their numbers are so low and how much state, city, and even county prisons, were built just to profit off of incarceration namely through importing prisoners.

that and the they (politicians, police, etc) should be in prison themselves for their head nodding reaction to prison violence to include rape. just nodding your head and shrugging should never had been acceptable
Ever heard any elected American politician running on a platform of shorter sentences, rehabilitation and reducing prison population?
The will of the people is delight at prisoners being anally raped. Sometimes the state needs to do something different.
Mobile app pros and opportunities:

- Integration into phone calendar, contacts, etc.

- Integration into share/intent features offered by platform

- Offline capability

- Homescreen presence

Website pros and opportunities:

- Public linkability, shareability of events, schedules, homepage (... in all likelihood you have a conference website anyway)

- No need to develop for different platforms

- No need for user to download an app

The drawbacks are implies by contrasting with the other.
Even Thoreau didn't live as a hermit - Walden was very much a break from everyday life for him. So I think like all such material the value is helping us to try and live before we die. Because one thing you can say about a less mediated life is that it's more fulfilling and more satisfying.

This was the aim of Thoreau, Gandhi and of course the Buddha - to live life directly without any mediation between oneself and reality. And to greater or lesser degrees they all achieved that.

All these viewpoints, Situationism, Marxism etc. can be dogma or just little clues to help us live a more fulfilling and satisfying life.
Could you please give a few examples of such simpler solutions?
As individuals we are much better off with passive indices.
I enjoy Medium, but I think of it nothing more (or less) than Twitter with more than 140 characters.

That said, there has been some interesting journalism being done there. And it's interesting seeing the White House and Obama using it as a public platform to issue addresses and policy commentary.
Counting Apple’s Customers
Yep, if there was ever a game that deserved a custom game engine, it would be Kerbal Space Program. The version of Unity that they used constrained them to 3.5 gb, and 32 bit floating point coordinates, in a game that deserves a true scale solar system.

I keep hearing that double precision floats for coordinates are unrealistic because of the optimisations that are available only for 32 bit floats, but I am willing to make serious sacrifices to free myself from the Spheres of Influence and the Orbital Railroad of Destiny; the real solar system mod forces a full scale environment, and even though the visual geometry is off by roughly a metre from the physical geometry, I still consider it to be an improvement.
Usually everything works as expected, e.g.

someprogram.exe arg1 arg2 arg3 $foo (Get-Item bar).Length

Variables get expanded in the argument list, arguments get quoted automatically based on their content. The only gotchas I can think of are:

& "command with spaces.exe" args

It's a bit unexpected that the & operator is needed.

Arguments sometimes get quoted unexpectedly, or need (single) quotes depending on PowerShell syntax rules to avoid evaluating something.

The worst (but sadly common) thing people can do when faced with problems here, though, is heading for Invoke-Expression, sometimes in combination with all sorts of wrappers, each of them making the problem worse, not better (it cannot get better that way).

The most robust way I tend to use when necessary is to just prepare a single array with arguments and splat that when calling the program:

program.exe @array

No surprises with PowerShell's parsing in command mode because we prepare the array in expression mode. Things are generally more predictable. Automatic quoting of the arguments still happens, though.

(Side note: My own little echoargs replacement is actually a batch file :-)

@echo off
echo.argv[0] = %~0
set cnt=1
:loop
echo.argv[%cnt%] = %~1
set /a cnt+=1
shift
if not [%1]==[] goto loop

)
I agree there are apparently huge problems with private prisons. But I don't see any reason to believe the government can run them better or cheaper.

Why not simply demand the standards we want from the private contractors running the prisons, as a contingency to get paid or renewed?

That would require actual oversight, and is probably less fun for people like Sally Yates than having a convenient scapegoat to justify expansion of the Bureau of Prisons.
> "Currently C has about 32 key words"

That was in C89. C99 and C11 added 5 and 7 more, respectively, bringing the count to 44 in modern C.
Basecamp,Trello and Help Scout support tool stacks
The Myth of Schema-less (2014)
I don't think you really understand the amount and magnitude of hate and cruelty in this country, especially hate for the poor and nonwhite, especially in the south. Rejection of Medicaid expansion is just one of many ways this hate and cruelty manifest themselves here.
DNA traces origins of Iceman's ragtag wardrobe
I have to agree, the sheer numbers of people Facebook has access to could crush Steam in terms of active users. I love Steam and think Facebook has enough of my information as it is but you can't ignore these numbers.
While I agree with the downvoting of this comment for the primitive perspective, I do also agree with the sentiment. Prison time does very little to change people and makes them more likely to re-offend.

What matters is repaying the "debt" to society. Hard to do when a year in prison can cost more to the taxpayer than a year at Harvard.
There's no way this can go wrong. If Facebook is known for anything, it's moldbreaking and open innovation.
A lot of charters are private, for-profit schools, but you are correct that private schools are mostly non profit (IIRC most private K-12 schools are religious nonprofits.)
The best recent point of comparison I know of is EA's Origin app which is...just the worst thing I have currently installed. It's just God-awful.

Steam was that way for a very long time, and the bodies of it's various issues are what it's currently built upon. Companies should just get on the Steam train, take advantage of that platform and stop trying to invent a new Steam.
Censorship should not be a job for some big corporation.

It should be done by the government, checked by the legal system and based upon open and clear legislation.

This is why we need the open web and why monopoly social media like Twitter and Facebook are so dangerous.
They could limit it to four teams. I'm no cricket player, but surely they could get in three games in two weeks?

Yes many nations with marginal cricket teams (perhaps including India?) would complain that they were left out, but similar unfairness happens in every Olympic discipline, e.g. when the top five in the world are from one nation that can only send one competitor.
Yeah, it is a problem ... blind users on Windows XP or vista is not unheard of. Vista shipped with ie7, if you can believe it.

Modern screen readers are really great and standards-friendly. There are even fully featured free/open source options. The problem really is disabled users stranded on old platforms.

It is very common for users with disabilities to not want to disclose their disabilities to websites. Very common to see low vision users use an independent magnifier tool rather than the browser zoom, for instance. Screen reader software is not detectable on the user's browser. So hoping to get a good count of users with disabilities visiting your site is going to be fraught with difficulties.

The kindest thing you can do from a web design standpoint for people with disabilities would be to read the WCAG, understand the issues and tradeoffs, and make tweaks to the way you form your markup and styles to conform, where you are able.

I learned about all this stuff while working on a public utility's website that got sued by a disabled persons' legal rights group who (legitimately) argued and won a case where they claimed the site was inaccessible to screen reader users. The site was totally atrocious, legacy Struts cruft, and we got to do a full overhaul of the UX, markup, and CSS for accessibility.

I expect more of these types of lawsuits in the future, so it could be useful career-wise to be aware of this stuff.

WCAG infos: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
I think it's been spewing hate much longer than that? That was just when some attempts were made to close it.

The British authorities just didn't have much tools for it, which sounds funny when they are otherwise enforcing various super-injunctions very greedily.
Is that an NVME SSD or SATA SSD? NVME is about 4 times faster than SATA in terms of pure transfer bandwidth, though I'm not sure about random access speeds.
The vital role of 4G and Skype in the European refugee crisis
As a counterpoint I think remembrance of past injustices is one of the key obstacles holding back the former Yugoslavia. People there tend to be aware of history (or at least their own version of it) going back to 1389 in a way that most Americans can't grasp. And although they might be right in some moral sense, so what? This just encourages a victim mentality and won't get them anywhere in the long run.
I REALLY do not see Facebook getting the killer app like Half Life 2, or Battlefield like mentioned below on Origin. Besides, that was a completely different time, before anything even existed. Steam didn't pull users away from the number one software distributor, to become number one. It was more of a killer app, just to adopt the concept.

Further segmenting your software between services, is exactly what people use Steam to AVOID. The fact that everything is in one place, no lost keys, no lost disc, is its selling point. It's bad enough I have to also use Origin to play some key games. So I'm certainly not going to further dilute my libraries.
Can you elaborate on your meaning?
Since when is a legitimately selected jury, with no external influences, finding Gawker guilty "abusive suppression of speech" or "malicious and frivolous"? Bollea likely would have won the case easily even if he hadn't received outside funding; the violation was just that egregious.

I have a hard time taking seriously the "underlying narrative" various self-interested news sources are trying to weave.
It definitely could be the case that the jurors came up with the numbers they did in order to put Gawker out of business. However, a jury can't just make a random number up. The awarded amount has to be supported by evidence or an appeals court will strike it down as unconstitutional.

I've been involved in a number of trials and my experience leads me to believe that a lot of what is behind a damages award has to do with the show put on by the plaintiffs attorney. If the plaintiffs attorney can anchor high and get experts to support the damages they are asking for anything can happen. This is perhaps one of the main downsides/upsides to a trial by jury. Depending on which side you are on this is a good or very bad thing.
Olympic Proof That Drag Beats Thrust in the Longer Term
Sounds like bullshit where you have to pay extra to stream video at more than 480p. Where are the unlimited data in that.
Bitcoin users have been warned about a potential attack by government hackers
Second this. Spend some time getting a quality demo up and running, hire a designer to help if needed.

Companies aren't interested in ideas, they want something they can drop in or can see using in 6 months.

* I have over a dozen patents. Learned this the hard way.
Great article uses competitive swimming to explain why tech companies need to invest in quality to be competitive in the longer term.
(2014) Cheating Robin Hood: How Our 300+ Cheat Codes Leaked
> I've been using bash for 20 years, trained a few hundred RHCEs, and spent a large part of my life working for Red Hat and then IBM's dedicated Linux group

Neat. Irrelevant.

> So yeah maybe I don't know any better, but that's because I haven't encountered it before.

Okay?

> Piping objects to 'where' and 'select' is simply a better approach than scraping text.

Why is it better? 'Simply'? Is this unique to powershell (Hint: No.)?

> The implementation details - having to use .net to make cmdlets - aren't great but the fundamental idea of powershell is excellent.

You understand that powershell literally has no new ideas of its own right? I mean you must since you read to this comment and several comments above say so and provide links to existing typed shells. You seem to be intentionally ignoring everything said just to promote powershell. You another microshill?