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By that standard, every empire ever should be held in the same esteem as Nazi Germany. After all, almost every change of dynasty in China involved tens of millions of deaths.
The BeagleBone's I/O pins: inside the software stack that makes them work
>Perhaps a large tax on new developments that is redistributed out to nearby property owners?

Surely if this would work, developers would already be bribing NIMBYs directly? If they can't profit after the bribe, then they can't profit after the tax either.
Which is why I have no doubt the Universal Windows Platform will become the Universal Platform and be a true desktop/tablet/mobile/server/etc Java competitor on all major OS (mobile, traditional and server).

It must be rather frustrating for Microsoft to look back a decade or more and see they were sitting on the exact technology a hell of a lot of people said would be their future had they made it cross-platform from the start. I remember using C# for the first time around 2004 and thinking "god damn if this were cross-platform like Java it would kill Sun". Back then Microsoft couldn't see past the tip of their nose though.
Looks like Runescape fire.
This in itself its own issue in that capitalism isn't doing what it should be when everything is subsidized by the gov.

Thus $500k 800 sq ft bungalows. You show me a chronic bubble and I'll show you a 'market' riven with subsidies, tax incentives, government secured debt and pencil whipping regulators. Healthcare, education, housing.... Yet when the bubble pops and the too-big-to-fails have to be 'recapitalized' all we get from the ruling class is more hating on markets.

Your last sentence is interesting:

the fact that too many economies rely on them to fall

I believe you meant that banks can't be permitted to fail. But it could also be read to mean that what we've self inflicted is a system whereby the greater fools are those found holding worthless CDOs (and all of their various derivatives) when the bubble pops; the market is ultimately expressing itself through the failure of financial institutions.
This is a very naive view of history and reconciliation. It's easy to say, "Yes, it was bad, but why don't we move on? Why be divisive and bring up past wrongs?" when you were not the one tortured. I would even call it churlish to preach "forgive and forget" when our countries (assuming you are a Westerner) have been doing wrong by these other countries for centuries.

Pretending history never happened is not only disingenuous, it actively hurts attempts to heal and move forward. There can be no forgiveness if one side tries to pretend something bad never happened. The example everyone cites is South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation process, in which the horrors of apartheid were laid bare. Everyone acknowledged what happened, and it laid the basis for moving forward.

Facts are facts. If the ugly history of imperialism offends you, look away. It will be there regardless.
Finally! It's exactly what we need since there are currently no scripting languages available in Unix user-land for when you need to do something beyond /bin/bash
It's not just a local problem though: there is a steady flow of people moving to, say, Portland because they have no hope of owning a house in the Bay Area in a place close to their jobs. As a consequence, prices in Portland are growing rapidly. Same thing here in Bend.
On a recent (php) project, I ended up with a setup where all the source code files were owned by user A but the php-fpm pool executing them was running as user B, i.e. web requests had no way of writing or modifying a php file that could then be executed over the web. (There was a user-B-writable directory for end-user uploaded files, but none of those would ever be executed remotely due to the nginx configuration.) There was no auto-update mechanism involved, but if there were it would have been a user A cron job.

Of course, you can still get yourself in trouble by doing dangerous things like mixing input with `include` or `eval`, but otherwise it seems like a strong mitigation against the worst exploits you see in php applications. Can or could Airship run in a configuration like that? It doesn't seem to be mentioned in the documentation.
Just to note, I wasn't even thinking about the standing start part! (I appreciate people's calculations on that point.) Even ignoring the standing start, the fastest speed I seem to be able to reach on my bike on level ground is about 35-40 kph, which is about as fast as Usain Bolt runs in sprint events.

But the acceleration issue is clearly also very significant and I hadn't put much thought into it.
What, which rights we foreigners have that the USA actually respect in practice is not important for judging how relevant American values are to the rest of the world?
Very much so. They're returning to their roots(winning over developers with world-class tools) and it's really refreshing to see.

Between this, VSCode and .NET Core it really is an impressive effort.
Brevity is the soul of wit - I try not to make long variable names if I can help it.
> but I think that many historians, including myself, believe that every human life that was ever lived has some value and deserves to be remembered

I agree with that, but the difference is that we have the ability to improve present and future lives, something we cannot do for those of the past. Thus if bringing dignity to the past injures the present and the future, we would not do so.
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Bash is 27 years old. It was written to replace the Bourne shell, which is 39.

It is not terribly surprising that a 9 year old tool like Powershell made some improvements over an earlier tool that was already old enough to vote!
I'm confused because the article is written by Max Ehnert who from looking at his linkedin has only been working as a software dev for roughly two years. He's painting the picture of a life he hasnt lived?
This doesn't actually happen. Tax avoidance is all about related party transactions these days, and there are more efficient ways to convert ST cap gains into LT cap gains.
If only they resolve the privacy leakage concerns in a reasonable manner.
I've been recently reading reports from some of my banking friends (and actually chatted with some folks I know at AMD) because I'm curious about AMD's turnaround. Even just last year AMD looked to be in very dire straights, and are still operating at a loss.

However, they seem to have a strong technical pipeline and they have historically punched above their weight-class. Does it look like they are going to make it?
Meaning, the mortgages (default risk) are guaranteed by the government, either explicitly (FHA) or implicitly through a government sponsored interprise (Fannie and Freddie).

After the housing crisis the private market (mostly banks) left very quickly. FHA and the GSEs stepped in and took their share.
You can use control-O for that, which does "execute this command as if I pressed enter, then when it's done bring up the following command in command line prompt". So if you have a set of commands to run that are 20 lines up in history, you can first find them (with 20x UP or by reverse-search), then just control-O control-O control-O control-O ... to execute them one after another.
The nit-picking and edge-casing is what spoils it for me. You can write 500 words about a general topic and someone will reply, "See in that sentence, you said 'all' there instead of 'some' and I can show you a counter-example! Your entire message is therefore wrong!!"
About time ... I hope this brings the cost of making outgoing calls from prisons down as well... No reason for calls to cost in excess of $1 a minute these days...
> "Supervised by humans in the drivers seat"

Ah, borrowing from the Musk marketing playbook, just say "self-driving" often enough, and enough uninformed people who have never seen contemporary luxury assisted-driving features will be impressed. Calling out Autopilot as "souped-up cruise control" is a nice touch.

> For now, Uber’s test cars travel with safety drivers, as common sense and the law dictate. These professionally trained engineers sit with their fingertips on the wheel, ready to take control if the car encounters an unexpected obstacle. A co-pilot, in the front passenger seat, takes notes on a laptop.

That doesn't seem very scalable. How many cars are in this so-called "fleet"?

Is there anybody working on autonomous vehicle tech that believes there's any substance here, or is it just adverjournalism?
> So all the author is saying is that giving a "black box" a lot of money, and letting it opaquely invest however it wants, will be a winning investment strategy in the future, even though right now it isn't working out so well.

That's the best description of a hedge fund that I've heard. Likewise, I don't see how that will ever be a winning investment strategy. You'd be better off with just an index ETF.
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It could even help with low threadcount workloads since the L3 will presumably be able to be fewer cycles away from each core than a unified last level cache would be.
Ok, that sounds good. But what if some developer decided that some field would have prefix "ABC" in all values, then the value I am interested in, then some value I am not interested in at the end? (you say this can't happen? Clue: WMI.) Can I take the value, convert it to string, make some magic on it and convert it to another object entirely?

I don't know, I never had any problems with text parsing. I love strong types in programming languages, but in system administration I think it would only get in the way. But as I said, never tried it, so I might be missing something.
I haven't gone recently but how does uBlock Origin fair in all of this?
I love nixies. I have a Fluke 8100 with a nixie display; it's pretty much just my battery tester but the most beautiful (and largest) one in the world.

Also built a kit clock that wasn't much more expensive than just one of this guy's tubes (uses Russian surplus pc-mount tubes), but apparently no longer available.

I think I got it here, but the site just shows some lame SQL error now:

http://www.store.tubeclock.com/
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What happens if someone is in one of these and it needs gas?

What happens if these things get a flat tires?

What if the police want to pull one of these things over?

Can drivers exit this thing at will or are they trapped until some computer in California thinks it is safe?

Uber does know that their drivers do lot more then drive
Corrections Corp down 20%

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ACXW
Amazon offers this extension for Chrome and Firefox.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...
> Shouldn't we as humans bury the longer past and move on and look at the present-day scenario? I know many will say - "What about justice to our ancestors?"

Ancestors?!! 50 years ago is in living memory - as the article stated, some the victims of the Mau Mau repression are still walking the earth, why should they 'bury the past'?

Those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it, we shouldn't bury it, but study and analyze it and make changes to lower the chances of it happening again - Nuremberg was a good thing for humanity, we need more of that.
In many bash configurations, ctrl-o is bound to 'operate-and-get-next’. If you hit up 20x, you should then be able to hit ctrl-o to run that command, and your history will automatically go to the next command down. Check it out, it’s great!

EDIT: beaten by pm215!
If people could be relied upon to maintain their own systems and apply security and other updates, this wouldn't be a problem. The unfortunate reality, is that they can't.
It is about Microsoft being a neutral player in a multiple platform world. Microsoft want people using their tools as it means they are more likely to use their platforms and services. Be it PowerShell on Linux or Bash on Windows or VSCode on macOS they want to make the best tools in the hope that it will push companies/developers towards Azure/SQL/Cloud as that is where the future for MS is.

Windows is on life support and they know this. The future isn't about companies buying hundreds to thousands of Windows licenses but an instance of an OS which is billed per X/month. They have seen businesses are more than happy to enter into such a model with Office 365 and The Cloud so it makes sense for them to move in that direction.
Probably due to rounding errors (multiplication precision)

[1]: http://floating-point-gui.de/
I think the bigger question is how you get straight to 4. Ford has resources, but I feel like they're betting against history here w/ regards to ML successes.

Practical, reliable ML stems from enormous data sets. And I can't see a way of obtaining the necessary data volume other than sitting in Level 3 for a product cycle...
I fear you're in for a long wait. The only visible part currently is 5 pages of "rah-rah - I love NNs".
Did you see or just ignore the part where she talked to people who actually had atrocities committed against them?
Sorry, I must have parsed your comment wrongly.
There's also Do Not Disturb mode which turns all notifications, but also all phone calls, off for an adjustable amount of time.
The UK needs to double down on the GDS, not dismantle it
The weird thing is, there's no reason we can't have both (megacity and nature preserve). A hop skip and a jump over the golden gate bridge brings you to the expansive Golden Gate Recreational Area. Head south and you have lots of state preserves, national parks, state parks, and etc for hiking/climbing. A mere three hour drive south is the incredible Big Sur. A few more hours East, Yosemite. So why not develop down town? Why not knock down the dinky little family two stories in Daly City and put up highrises? I don't get it.
The sad truth is that empires require massive amounts of violence to maintain. There is no other way. Just look at Sumer, Assyria, Persia, Rome, China, Ottoman, France, Britain, and Germany. Also, make no mistake, the United States is also a defacto empire.

Unfortunately, the alternatives to empires is isolation and infighting between smaller powers. For an example of this, take a look at the middle east. The middle east is most peaceful when it is part of an empire - be it the Ottoman, the British, Mongol, or Arab empires. Another example, is Europe. Europe was pretty peaceful when it was partitioned between the Soviet empire and the US Empire (also known as NATO).

Also, empires can provide major benefits through economies of scale. Take a look at Europe before and after the fall of the Roman Empire. Looking back historically, the Roman Empire was probably a net positive for human development throughout the Mediterranean World. The various Chinese empires were also probably net positives for their citizens.

Thus, it is not proper to judge the British empire over violence (given that an empire requires violence). The judgement should be over whether the British empire was a net positive or a net negative overall for the people involved.
Reddit’s uptime (2008–2016)
Microsoft certainly seems interested in standardizing the platform for VR, especially with reference to AR/MR [mixed reality] where the devices need to interact with real world objects. That seems to be the stated goal of the "Windows Holographic" initiative and why they've been making such a big deal about it being included as a base platform in all Windows 10 devices with the next Windows 10 release (codename: Redstone 2).

See the announcements this week of Intel's Mixed Reality prototype Project Alloy, which takes a different approach from the HoloLens, and that Windows Holographic will support the Windows Holographic Shell that HoloLens uses also on pure VR headsets like Vive/Rift.

Unity does look like a good way to target all of the VR options today in a portable way, and hopefully Windows Holographic will help that targeting for those doing "raw DirectX" work.

I've not yet heard of similar efforts towards an "OpenVR" relative to OpenGL, but that sounds like a good idea.
I think there are a lot of differences here in terms of the level of blatant corruption, extreme disrespect shown by the Brazilian fans, insane crime reports, Zika, etc.

There's a reason the /r/apocalympics subteddit is so popular.
Scripting. While I typically use Bash on Windows to use grep to interactively test my webserver, I'm much happier using Powershell ISE (which I don't know was ported [1]) to write standard tests with multiple parts, particularly ones that require e.g. checking cookies on the response.

1. Looks like they ported a service that does the same. https://github.com/powershell/powershelleditorservices
Should just turn on "do not disturb" and set it up to let important people's phone numbers through to you.
The stats look really damning. Notice the p-scores : 4e-19 for worlds 2013 and 5e-8 for olympics 2016. And you can see it so clearly in the graphs too. No question, there was a big difference between one side of the pool and the other!
JPA providers market share in 2016
Cool. https://powershell.org/ needs some work though. It screams WordPress 2008 website, and I'm not given any idea how to install or use it, or what it's good for, just by looking at the front page.
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as someone fascinated by this but outside of that world, can you elaborate?
I feel that principle is true from all high-level languages as you move down the chain.

Shell scripts should be 1-20 lines. Python/Ruby/whatever for 20-100 and compiled for anything >100.
>Partly because the state charges too little for the guarantees it offers, taxpayers are subsidising housing borrowers to the tune of up to $150 billion a year, or 1% of GDP.

The current environment offers housing borrowers money at a price below the market.

The simplest bet with this cash (buying a house and holding) has probably been overdone in the market. House prices are quite high now.

Still, small but crafty borrowers should be able to profit with this cheap money.
Show HN: Slog, a simple logger for Python
Slog's a simple logging framework for Python 2 and 3 (though I've only ever tested it with 2.7 besides 3), and as an alternative to the often-overkill `logging` module.

I did a bit of work on it last year, but I had to put it on hiatus because of other responsibilities that came up at the time.

With the re-release, I'm aiming for a stable code base, but before I bring it into the 1.x.x world, I'd like to hear from the HN community -- any feedback you have, or suggestions, or even criticisms, just let me know either in this thread or on Github.

Slog on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slog

Slog on GitHub: https://github.com/verandaguy/slog
How to Use Your Full Brain When Writing Code
You're going to seriously try serialize active records? Are you going to ship them to your clients as well to deseiralize? coupled with all their server data logic implementations? Active Records aren't DTO's and this doesn't work in the real-world, you can of course try to force it, but then you'll just be fighting fires trying to workaround new runtime serialization and implementation coupling problems.

> Of course it's not clear to you how everything else works when we've only seen a single select example

It's not clear because it's hidden behind your active record wrapper so the call-site doesn't know anything about it or provide any way they can change it.

> None of those things are clear in yours either from the select example shown here.

It's absolutely clear since `db` is just the open ADO.NET DB Connection which the query is obviously using. Users don't need to know anything more about the Micro ORM to use transactions as it just works naturally with ADO.NET DB Transactions.

> Yes there is, preference of the ORM writers, nothing more.

It's the preference of devs with experience writing ORM's as to what provides the optimal, intuitive API with the least friction, max productivity and reuse. You can of course stick to creating a new ORM based on a custom Active Record pattern which you'll end up maintaining forever and no-one else will have experience using or want to use. So any of your code-bases using it will be stuck using a bespoke legacy DAL that will be unmaintained the second you stop maintaining it and move on to NIH'ing something else.

> Active records are practical, they're why Ruby on Rails got so huge so fast. Ignore this pattern at your own peril.

They're ignored in .NET because they provide no added value over what's already available, there's no peril to be avoided, they're worse in every way and have zero chance of returning with any meaningful impact in .NET.
It feels like this is a battle (maybe "battle" is too strong of a word) over "who will control the single, traffic-coordinating bean". Where as we can instead create - by convention not law/authority - a whole new set of decentralized "beans", no? For example, can a competing, decentralized equivalent to DNS be leveraged which right out of the gate leverages ipv6, allows for easier-tom-implem,ent decentralized nodes, etc.? I'm not saying this is easy...but surely it could assuage any concerns over control of conventional DNS, no?
Powershell is the first language where I managed to save time by writing a program for a task. Needless to say, I'm thrilled at the prospect of using it on Linux. The only thing that I hope they will need to work on is startup time making sure it performs well on low-spec servers (It can be a bit slow starting cold on older laptops).

ls -Recurse | ? { $_.Name -match ".+docx" }
I’m bullish on any investor who:

* stays away from the pressure to be "with it" every quarter

* stays away from stuff that everyone is talking about

* stays away from short term thinking (like real time datasets)

* stays away from statistical artefacts and spurious relations (aka “huge amounts of data”)

* stays away from stuff where they don't understand the basic business models

* stays away from stuff that is built on promises

* stays away from mostly all hedging, other than paying the proverbial 50c for a dollar

* stays away from diversification "just because" (looks at each individual investment on its own merits)

* stays away from arbitrary limitations on asset types or sectors

* stays away from short selling (or situations where you can loose more than what you put in)

* stays away from giving or taking tips on individual investments

* even stays away from feeling they have to kick ass every quarter (if you just can't find anything good... do nothing)

* instead just focuses on not loosing big quantities of his/her own money

* tries to keep costs down (less data, less trading, no hedging, low fees, less dealing with currency exchange)

* doesn't worry about volatility or even enjoys it

* has a few large winners and then some smaller potential winners

That may exclude most if not all funds, hedged or otherwise.

Also: in my experience every 19 year old and his dog now tend to consider themselves "macro traders". It’s an indication of how extremely financialized the entire world has become since the 80s. That in itself bodes ill for the 2 and 20 crowd.
Whether or not you approve of hedge funds, they don't exist for the sole purpose of helping companies reduce their tax bill. Most companies of significant size can play tax games without the help of a (sometimes expensive) intermediary.
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> You lose the "excuse" of racism

No, you do not lose the excuse of racism - "Race" is a social construct, not a biological one. The Irish were seen as an inferior people at the time (even in the U.S.), so they did suffer racism.