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> 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.

I'm not sure this is really right though. You could make the same argument against Ruby or Python in favor of Perl or Pike, could you not?

PowerShell syntax is quite minimal, has a novel methodology for strongly typed interactive use, and has the ability to directly invoke managed code. You can write shell components in any .NET language and invoke them (with care at writing time, this can be done very cleanly, but even without said care it's possible with a bit of a mess).

> 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 has the entire .NET library at its disposal. I certainly never feel a lack of support using it.
By giving everything away for free?

The only related revenue stream M$ seems to have left is Azure with some vague notion that giving away their ecosystem will drive people to use their cloud more
If I unknowingly had money invested in private prisons I would gladly cop the loss on the chin and spend a few moments reviewing investment policies my fund uses.
Yes, and there's an extension to use it from VS Code[1]. It works pretty well (autocomplete, F8 to run a script, debugging, go-to-definition, etc.). The fact that it's a language server means it can be used from other editors to (although I don't know if any other extensions exist).

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
First question, does that laptop have a SSD? Most developer machines do these days, that's the single biggest improvement to build times you can make. Then look at CPU, IO, memory utilization during builds to see where improvements can be had.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the guidelines.

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I'd argue it's not insane, it's human nature.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/hannah_arendts_original_a...

I'd also argue it's something we need to actively work to engineer out of society and humanity.
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The 100x is more because companies weren't really able to sell these contracts. Instead, they'd make another one with the opposite position to mitigate their risk. In case of default, there'd be a lot of offsetting payments.
As a professional game dev, my gut guess is that maybe 75% of new games on Steam are written using Unity. Maybe more.
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I think I tried something like this once before, and it broke something else. I can't remember what that was, so I'm totally trying this.
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[Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.]

As far as I recall, the original impetus behind what became PowerShell (as handed down to us in a conference room by Ballmer himself, sometime around 2001) was to fill the gap between ops people who did enterprise administration manually with tools like MMC and engineers who automated enterprise administration with tools like C++/DCOM. The latter were necessary in a lot of cases, but they were expensive, and we needed to give the industry a way to do powerful automation without hiring a bunch of PhDs. So, yes, someone did ask for it - the IT industry.
NPR is killing off comments. That’s great news
Maybe on Linux. OpenBSD doesn't even have procfs, FreeBSD deprecated it, DragonFlyBSD doesn't mount it by default.

/proc is a race condition waiting to happen, so I can't really say I recommend using that.
I fought getting fixed-width fonts to work for weeks across all these devices. Believe it or not, despite being a sci-fi novel it does have code snippets :)
I know I'm probably in the minority here, but what we really need to do is only keep violent offenders in prison, and everyone else can be free.
10,000 hour rule seems to be true. But I believe you can work on more then one skill at a time.

So in a 40 year career you can master about eight to ten skills.

I didn't say I'm also an artist.
Seems like an electron/nwjs app, does it sounds plausible ?
> 660 FICO is not sub-prime by any standard

Experian buckets 740-830 as "super prime" and 680-739 as "prime". I'm not aware of any credit agency that buckets 660 as "prime" (or better).

Some mortgage originators consider 670-690 and no 30-day lates in the last year as "near prime".

660 is indeed "sub-prime", IMO.
IIRC from reading the book a year or two ago, one of them's bosses were hounding him for the premiums he was paying on the insurance-like contracts he bought, which was something like $25m/year. When the crash happened they bought in ~$1b. Had there not been a crash he would have got nothing (the contracts would never have paid out) and that $25m/year would have been money down the drain.
> If they had actually known what atrocities

Lets put the atrocities to one side for a moment. We should also consider the fact that in many cases colonial invasions put into place highly extractive political institutions and extractive economic institutions. That's relevant for the long term. In almost all cases, the colonial governments put into place winner-take-all environments. That meant, if you were willing to be the corrupt puppet native leader, and were willing to supress your other natives at all costs, then you got to be "King". The structures created in those colonial countries still maintain such winner-take-all society which results in authoritarian/dictatorial leaders.
Until they run GitMo too?
jacquesm: "Your behavior in this thread is deplorable."

Why, may I ask?
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The only right way to do private prisons is to give each prisoner a fixed grant with which they can use to buy space in a prison. This is the only way the prison's incentive can match those of the prisoner.
Does OTR support secure file transfers?
I wonder if OTR (pidgin plugin for example) supports secure file transfer whn both users use OTR? Could not find anything asuring online.
Some references should be appreciated. Thanks.
> 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

This hasn't been my experience. In my experience at a couple firms, redemption schedules have always been tightly controlled to ensure predictable AUM and minimize forced rebalancing of strategies.
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OTOH C has been replaced in many of its previous application areas, and the process continues. A lot of the software people now write in JS, Python, Clojure, C# or CUDA would have been written in C 20+ years ago.
No. These facilities are privately operated, but are owned by the federal government. The operators can't choose to turn them into state prisons, no more than they could choose to turn them into hotels.
In this framework, treating popularity as a prior over all previous information, what do you make of groups that maintain irrational beliefs for very long periods of time? Specifically things like superstitions where accidental correlations between unrelated events don't seem to be corrected by individual actors adding just a bit of objectivity at each step

This is really neat by the way, thanks for producing this paper, I think it's an important area to start poking around in.
Generally speaking... "productivity" and media styles of workloads do better with more cores/high memory machines. Gaming typically does better with higher clock speeds (which means less cores in every case I've seen). If you want that in a laptop form factor though, I am not aware of Intel sticking massive-cored chips in the mobile form factor, so your choices will be limited to whatever the fastest i7 is you can pickup... unless you were thinking of building a desktop?

UPDATE - Oh mutagen's point about SSD is absolutely spot on... the faster the storage the better _first_... then worry about the rest of that stuff I mentioned.
sadly that wasn't available, and researching an easier way to do it without that was met with pages and pages of people saying to do that...
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> If we want prisons to work, we need the economics to work in favor of societal goals.

This is true, but we already ignore that for our prison population. Otherwise, our system would be less punitive and more aimed to reformation and building productive citizens.
There's literally an example in 'man ps' that does exactly this. It's right there in the output formatting section.

ps kstart_time -ef
You probably don't want to give away specific numbers, but in generally, how is the profitability of selling on Kindle versus paperback? The price difference looks to me to be less than the cost difference, thereby making Kindle more profitable. Is that accurate?
Well, that's just corruption of the worst kind, but private prisons or no, I'm betting this judge would have found an alternative stream of dirty money if private prisons didn't exist.

I mean, look I agree with you that they need to be closed, but there are likely better examples of them just being worse on merit, without having to dive into bribery and whatnot.
Not sure why Diego is being downvoted so much, when parent who made an equally incendiary comment wasn't.

Many respected "first world" journalists have also commented on the same pattern of people from richer countries condescending to poorer countries that host the Olympics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/opinion/brazils-uplifting-...
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My apologies. I'm used to having rip-offs like Elsiver and such in academia that I assumed that you (the author) were also in the same predicament.

When the search on the common academic piracy pages showed this book, I assumed that I was only harming the parasitic journal companies. Evidently, I wasnt :/ For that, I apologise.
Their problem is they'd have to contradict their own UI despite doing things like that. Let's say that they removed the "Suggested Post" indicator from their ads entirely, and the ads essentially appear identical to something you are already following; unless you had followed the page before, it should display a Like button like any other post and it would not say something like "You liked/followed this page" at the top of the post in the feed, so it would be a safe assumption to clear out anything that wasn't specifically liked by you or a friend. But, if they were to not display a Like button or elements telling you whether or not you have followed the post before, that's yet another indication that it's not a genuine post. I wouldn't mind never seeing anything that's "suggested" and would rather find content through friends(you know, that whole social networking thing). I don't see how they can ever get around ad blocking in the long term without making their site unpleasant to use.
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>I was under the impression that Unity and Unreal were basically comparable engines - is this not the case?

I'm not 100% intune with game dev, but I always thought Unity was more indy-focused while Unreal was more big boy focused. I know off the back of my head that Unreal powers games like Street Fighter and Bioshock.

I can't really find any other $100MM+ budget games developed with Unity.
I'm curious what the breakdown in nonmonopolistic cost of this would be. I assume the largest component is the cost of surveillance to make sure they aren't taking out a hit on someone?
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Take the Las Vegas Strip for example. They have a lot of pedestrian bridges for people to avoid crossing streets. Granted, this also works to funnel folks into casinos. However, it would be difficult for a pedestrian to get into the street at some intersections because of fences and barricades. I have to think that most cities will evolve similarly when self-driving cars become commonplace
Tunneling encrypted traffic through your ISP to a data center improves performance vs. going straight from your endpoint to the other endpoint. Stop and consider this for a moment.

The fact that this is so often the case points to either BGP peering being totally f'd at ISPs or deep packet inspection and traffic prioritization / de-prioritization algorithms mucking everything up.

I personally suspect the latter since at ZeroTier we've noticed that direct P2P performance is sometimes (for some ISPs) more consistent when the traffic is flowing over ZeroTier than "naked." This simply should not be. If anything encapsulation should have the opposite effect. My guess would be that the DPI traffic manglers don't know what to do with encrypted UDP traffic so they just send it on through.
Yes, that was the one -- I was a bit distracted and didn't notice that I didn't include the link. Can't edit my comment now.
Well how do you know that Facebook and Google doesn't have what you made? Companies keep things secret until they properly develop it maybe these companies are already up to it.

Also there is nothing called super awesome idea that no one hasn't come across at least someone somewhere must have had the idea you had just that they never pushed it to production or made it and never sold it or at least tried to make it.

I guess the best way is to share the idea with the community not in detail in how you do it but an idea in what you made so other can talk and comment on it. Only after that you will realize it is a grand idea that you think it is.

But on the other hand there are great inventions that went un noticed for a long time before getting traction. Look no further the mp3 Technology that we used today was not used because the bad mp2 technology was backed by big companies. Only after a decade or so with slow traction mp3 got popular. The developers gave up the idea of mp3 and even decided to stop developing it.

This is from a book called "How Music Got Free". I suggest you guys read it :)
It's just default behavior and its customizable for a reason. Different people have different preferences, powershell's default behavior is in no way 'better' than bash's. You can also use a different shell like zsh.
And Dropbox can be replicated "just fine" with scripts and rsync.
My preference was UUCP for USENET via 1200 baud modem circa 1983.
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Good start! I just wish this change would be happening for the right reasons, e.g. that privately held prisons are creating a false incentive, an incentive to be more profitable by having more prisoners and thus the creation of a lobby for such thing.
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I don't have the expertise to help you with this specific situation, however I would love to know the approach that you took and the outcome of this endeavor. Please share it when you are ready.
Some grid cities in the U.S. do even better by naming the named streets according to a system, such as alphabetizing them (Portland, Minneapolis, surely others) or by naming them for Presidents in their historical order (NE Mpls.)

I'm convinced that there's educational benefits to these systems as well. I literally learned my alphabet backwards and forwards at the same time as I learned my local neighborhood geography.
Powershell In Action covers a bit of the history and decision making around powershell; interesting stuff.

Ultimately, given that powershell was initially targeted at systems admins/engineers and that Windows is highly object-oriented(in contrast to Linux's text streams), I believe Powershell was a apt development. Having done plenty of systems engineering across linux and Windows it seems to fit the needs of Windows pretty well; a fantastically unique shell that wouldn't have existed if not for Windows.
I'm in the North East, but I can fly to California if I need to. It spans a couple areas of Data Science, but all that Google / Facebook would be interested in.

I added an email to my profile. Thanks for the suggestion.
Are they? The list of skills available is a graveyard of horoscopes and "guess the number" games.
There is another plausible explanation: there are many people, especially photographers, near the turn for lanes 1-4 but none for 5-8. The start has people on both sides. The rest of the deck is barren. Even after 15 years of competitive swimming, the visual presence of yelling people still had impact on my effort level, while the presence of a stroke & turn judge leads to a tightening of form (ie less dolphin kick in breaststroke).

Edit: of course, this could still be unfair but at least it would be due to human psyche rather than currents
> Will require facebook login to play games

Is gonna be fun to see this thing rise and fall more faster than the shit uplay is.
Mainly for making music, some plugins that are doing simulations are very computationally expensive, so it is not possible to run many instances in realtime using typical 4-core PC. So multicore cpu like in my case helps a lot with this. Another thing is that I use a lot of virtual machines for my work, so it is handy to have when launching a lot of them etc. You also get the benefit of having more memory slots available.
In terms of X99 - I had i7-5820K cpu which I was maxing out all the time and since X99 is supporting XEONS as well, i decided to keep it for money reasons :) I could also keep non-ECC memory, so that was a plus.
Why does the government need to be involved in mortgage lending at all? Is there a specific market failure inherent in it people can point to that calls for government intervention to overcome (akin to the public good failure for e.g. roads)?
Re that quote: the author apparently has forgotten the existence of royal/noble families. When there are titles at stake, children certainly do get "disowned" for all sorts of reasons. (This doesn't mean they're kicked onto the street, though—they're not disowned by the parents, but rather by the family. Which just means they're no longer expected/allowed to inherit whatever they were going to inherit, and so they stop being groomed for it, which usually means the parents redirect their attention elsewhere and the child ends up raised by a nanny.)
Those aren't the stats that really matter though. At the end of the day, the question isn't whether the pool is fair or not, but whether the people watching the event on TV still go out and eat McDonalds or whatever afterwards.

Most sports aren't really 'fair' per se. Making them fair wouldn't be cost effective, and wouldn't make for good TV. E.g. everyone knows that some lanes are faster than others in rowing due to the lack of wind screens around the venues. And that's not even to mention the people who spend ten years training only to get violently ill and unable to compete due to the water quality. The reality is that even at the highest levels of competition there is still a lot of luck.
> x86-64 is straight up a pretty clean architecture, with a memory model that doesn't suck

I wouldn't go that far. In particular, the encoding of instructions in x86-64 makes zero sense except for backwards compatibility. Since all code is littered with REX prefixes, you have the same i-cache footprint as RISC architectures do without the benefits (die area for decoding, etc.).

If you fixed the instruction encoding, extended the three-address forms of instructions introduced in AVX2 to scalar integer operations, and finally threw away real mode and port mapped I/O, etc., I agree that x86-64 would be pretty nice. I'd be happy to get even one of those improvements, honestly :)
I assume the author meant Bjarne Stroustrup for items 20 and 21. It's spelled wrong twice, as Bjourne and Bjourn.

> Conclusion 3: C and UNIX should be avoided where possible because they're Bad by Design for reasons that stopped applying sometime in the 80's or early 90's.

What does the author propose instead? Is there a major OS that has a kernel not written in C?
I bet they lobby against Decriminalizing anything.
bits of SCSH have been ported to every scheme out there now. And some have been improved. Irregex, in particular, is a dramatically improved version of the SCSH regex engine.
> Once you've piped strongly-typed objects around between your shell commands, text scraping seems barbaric by comparison

This is why Powershell is a great thing on Windows. Windows works with .Net objects and Powershell works directly with those objects.

It's also why I don't see the reason to be excited that it can run on OS X and Linux now, because neither of those systems work by passing .Net objects around. You parse text with bash/sed/awk/perl/python ... because *NIX works on text based config files and commands that output text.
I have barely any Racket experience, but this sounds really good to me:

"My favorite part of Racket is how it supports a certain development style of evolving scripts into programs […] I transition from "no code" to "working code" to "robust code" to "re-usable code", the program is almost always runnable."
Blockchains are so far really only effective at attracting venture capital to startups.

We're at the end of the mobile tech cycle, people are desperate for a new investment theme. IoT and blockchain are showing up everywhere but it feels like a contrived attempt to start another cycle.

Remember "push" technology and B2B exchanges? Two other keywords that popped up in contrived efforts to start new tech cycles after the first .com implosion.
If you look, I think you'll find very little evidence of that actually happening. Further, state-run prisons create as much if not more incentive, in the form of public sector unions.
Great TNG episode.
Yes, this makes for much easier to read code for people down the road :)

I think OPS folks (myself included) sometimes create things thinking nobody but them will use them, then an occasion arises to share, and you're stuck with something functional but horrible to read.

It took just one such occasion for me to convert to writing everything from the perspective that 'other people may need to use this.'
did you try xonsh?
Yes, I'm aware of those papers. I've read many including the one that you linked. As far as I'm aware, while you can use the strict definition (is there, in the metalanguage, the creation of an AST?) they're often discussed as more of a continuum.

HOAS is a great example. There is the creation of an AST, but perhaps the most important and tricky part of any AST, the binding system, is left to the metalanguage. For that reason exactly I'm happy to say that HOAS is "shallower" than, say, a de Bruijn indexed binding system.
1. Social proof. Can you find an independent party with a name/reputation to vouch for the value of your invention? It would be great to say: here's so-and-so, who works at X or teaches at Y, who looked into my solution and is happy to answer questions about it. Have like 2 or 3 people like that, people who have some reputation/name. That might help.

2. You might be better off turning this into a startup first, and then getting sold/acqui-hired. Does that apply to your idea?
That won't help: mass incarceration is primarily a phenomenon involving "violent" offenses.

http://harvardjol.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/HLL104_crop...

By way of example, a plurality of offenders awaiting trial in Cook County lockup are there for domestic violence.
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except that C# as a language is by leaps and bounds better than Java (both in syntax and useful features departments), so there have been other problems to solve, too.
Proof that not only do individuals double down on beliefs in the face evidence against them, but so do groups/organizations/governments.
f* yeah lots of tutorials and books start saying "do as i say, write everything i ask you to do, i know more than you noob" specially those made by the author of "learn * the hard way".