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I didn't mean to imply that Coursera was the first. Khan Academy is equally fantastic and MIT was also pushing open learning before Coursera too.

Incidentally though I've found Coursera to be the first online course that inspired me to complete multiple courses.
I did hear of a guy like that once but it turns out I would be sexist if I didn't vote for his opponent. You see, it was her turn.
Nice. Thanks. I needed that. I was hoping for something like that.

Okay, if my startup becomes a big thing, then maybe I'll have the servers all on some version of Linux. For the conversion, if I could consider doing it now, then it would be easy enough for a team of a dozen if my company gets to 100+ people.

As it is, except for nonsense interruptions not due to Windows or Microsoft but would be much the same for Linux, I am a few weeks of good work from going live. I shouldn't jump ship now.

But, your post is a keeper. Thanks.
Thats not entirely true. England has had a number of economic scandals before the US recieved their independence. There is also certainly a president of "too big to fail" to the point that the king was invested [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company
I fully agree -- they're two different animals. IMHO, it's a symptom of the two different paradigms of running a process on Windows vs Unix.

I worry about getting out of the habit when scripting on Linux of forking off a new process for each iteration of a loop, rather than pushing the loop into powershell, for better execution.
0: scsh is a nice scripting language, however it's not meant for interactive usage (PowerShell is) See: http://www.alphanet.ch/~schinz/scsh-faq/scsh-faq_4.html#SEC3... Scheme is also dynamically typed.

1: It's the first time I see it, but from a cursory glance and some docs (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.0.0/docs/Turtle-...) I think it doesn't include simply calling external commands (I couldn't find any info on how to wrap an external executable with type, too). Without this, it can't be a real "shell", only a scripting DSL for Haskell. It's not very good for interactive use as it relies on ghci.

2: tcsh is meant for interactive use and is a shell; I used it when working with FreeBSD but never wrote any scripts in it. However, I don't see any mention of types in it's manual (other than file types): http://linux.die.net/man/1/tcsh

PowerShell is statically typed like Turtle, has a nice scripting language like scsh and is meant for interactive use. It's not only typed, but also (partly) object oriented and with full and direct access to all .NET/Mono classes. That also implies that you can write commands in any of the CLR-targeting languages, by the way, like F# or Clojure-CLR.

PowerShell is unique (not literally so, as I'm sure there are other projects doing similar things, but I think it's safe to say that it's unique among widely used shells) in what it provides and in that it takes all that into interactive use. It's definitely worth checking out if you haven't already. Of course, keep in mind its problems, like the mentioned smaller number of already available utilities.
he's not wrong though. ssh is the quickest way of accessing remove machines, not to mention secure (i have never seen remote desktop done with priv/pub key in practice). it also makes automation and transferring files easy. putty is terrible compared to ssh on linux. what i would have given for good ssh on windows back when i was still doing C#...
The BeagleBone suffers from the same exact issues the Raspberry Pi does, namely that there are only two real ways to run the peripherals: The horribly, horribly slow filesystem interface, and "Open /dev/mem RW! YOLO! Run Apache as root for your crappy internet of shit project!".

There are basically no actual sane drivers for doing anything fast.

At one point, I spent a while looking at writing my own driver, but apparently I'm not a good enough hacker to write kernel drivers.
Did you mean "exactly one of which is @"?

That's not the rule that 'Freak_NL posted, which is why I read your rule as "at least one of which is @".

And, besides, as others have pointed out, "exactly one of which is @" is incorrect. Valid email addresses can have multiple @ characters.
Although 480p is not too bad (I have that feature enabled) on the phone, isn't it something you can easily get around using VPN?
CockroachDB: Squashing a Schrödinbug with Strong Typing
The mindset against medicaid is it isn't the government's job. The circles of responsibility are yourself, your family, your church, you're fucked. That is just life.

[Not necessarily my own view!]
Urg... I wish TMobile had better coverage where I love. I'm stuck with AT&T which just halved my data plan, but they removed overages do it kinda makes up for it...
Although the idea of self driving trucks and truckers getting paid more is juxtaposed, I think the premise stems from their network and load matching system rather than the self driving trucks.
Another collision: http://www.ottogroup.com/en/ (although probably not that well known in the english speaking world).
Exactly. The developers they can get to work for them are "useful idiots", whose work they then use to further screw over their main customers, who aren't going to abandon them no matter what, and also bring in more developers to their platform and away from the competition. As long as these developers are easily and naively wooed by a bunch of BS talk about "the new Microsoft", they get to help MS with their evil shenanigans.
> A teacher's union lobbying is acting in the interest of millions of American teachers. An oil company lobbying is acting in the interest of the CEO of the oil company.

Both are incorrect characterizations. In theory, the actions of a union represent the interests of its members and the actions of a corporation represent the actions of its shareholders. In practice, the actions of both represent their boards' interpretation of what their members/shareholders want and what they think is in the best interests of their corporations[1]. Neither represents either the collective will of all its members or the whims of a single person.

[1] Unions in the US are 501(c) corporations and so have similar governing structures.
Does Go do any LTO? It's good that they throw away unexported unused routines from my code, but it'd be better if they also didn't link in unused routines from the standard library (assuming no reflection is being used).
Rights apply to the qualitative characteristics of a situation. When a company controls a public method of communication, then their diktats have the equivalent effect as governmental law.

Would you say that a US citizen in North Korea still has an unoppressed right to free speech?

(FWIW, your right to free speech can't be "taken away", by anyone. That's the thing about rights - you have them regardless of whether or not they're being oppressed.)
There is a very common narrative that tries to say that the British Empire was good for India, and wasn't like all the other savage empires.
Cutting off communications channels can disrupt an organization. Specifically, removing them from Twitter might keep people who are not going looking for extremism from being recruited.
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It's using open standards. It's an open platform. Unless you consider every webhost to be a closed platform?
ConvertTo-CSV converts each property into a single string. Rich object? Tough. You get a string. If the type does not support a nice string representation, you get type names, like "System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]" in your CSV output.

ConvertTo-Json serializes in-depth ... properties that are actually rich objects become nested dictionaries instead of simple strings. For instance, the "Parent" which is a Folder object. Recursively, up to the depth allowed.

Anyway, when you convert back, you don't get actual FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects, you get dynamic property bags. So those complex properties remain dictionaries ... which ConvertTo-CSV turns into strings in a very different way.

If you specify -Depth 1 when you ConvertTo-Json ... the resulting output would be very similar.
Ask HN: Provide company name to find email of anyone
Clear bit chrome app : https://goo.gl/o5Qre2

Is above app not a violation ? Moreover - installed it to see how it works but it wants to read all my email messages in gmail. What ?

(edit: typos corrected)
In praise of Failure
This is great! My wife is a music teacher and often scans sheet music so that it's more portable. She has been asking me for a while for something exactly like this. I'll have to tweak it to work on sheet music, since I imagine his methods to identify lines of text won't work for the music staff out of the box.
All that’s not golden
Thiel's intent was to bankrupt Gawker by secretly funding many cases such as the Mother Jones example. Again, he got lucky with the Bollea case (not only in that it was quite egregious, but that it provided an excellent framework to recruit unwitting members of the public to his defense by exploiting our cognitive tendency to break conflict into false dichotomies -- being anti-Gawker doesn't mean I'm pro-Thiel).

Are you in favor of or against someone secretly funding multiple lawsuits in order to destroy a company producing negative press about their investment vehicles? That's the question that actually matters.
Would it though? If the truck can drive hundreds of miles on the highway then initially maybe you're right because they'll just sit in the cab but, eventually, they won't be in the cabs anymore. If they're being paid by the mile then that's a significant cut of the miles and therefore pay.
It has gotten cheaper in terms of physical resources (reality), but not in terms of money.

Two of the three main goals of the money system, as stated in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, are to maintain stable prices and maximize employment.

So, not only does technological ephemeralization run counter to these explicit goals, it also cedes power from the super administrators who dictate the money supply which ultimately determines monetary prices across the globe.
But you still get other things. Video and music streaming is unmetered and you get free roaming in many countries with text and data.
Free speech is not an obligation for a corporation either. At least they're being transparent about it (this time anyway).
Is that an assumption, or a requirement? It seems to me that autonomous vehicles are based on fitting into the existing infrastructure because that's what they'll have to actually deal with. Any technology which requires new infrastructure hits a chicken and egg problem, since nobody will want to spend on infrastructure without any cars to use it, and nobody will want to buy cars that use it if the infrastructure isn't there.

Seems like it would basically be a two-step process. First, you need autonomous vehicles which work on roads as we have them now. Once they're common, they can start adding features which can take advantage of more sophisticated infrastructure when it comes. Sort of like how early cars had to work on paths built for horse carriages, but once they were common we could start building things like freeways.
`cat youCantBeWorseThanCmdRight.utf8.txt > openMeAfter.txt` in PowerShell and cmd, and tell me how good posh is

now go tail a 1GB file in posh and bash and tell us your results
Maybe no relation but there might be one... Do you know the reasons why they killed all those people with drones? It could be because of their speech... (but the reason why they did it is probably top-secret)
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So then you switch back to another shell?
[video]Zuckerberg explains what made takeoff Facebook take off in its early days
I can assure you that what you have invented is not as powerful or as useful as you think. If you had something that provided value, people would desire that value.
I've been a big booster of AMD for a long time, but recently the performance/power is so much in Intel's favor that I've been forced to use Intel for my last couple of PCs. I hope Zen makes them competitive again.
So much this.

What the M$ community fails to see is that text streams can be consumed by __everyone__. We've basically all accepted the fact that programs are used longer and in different ways than we'd expect. A brittle object model can only lead to vendor lock in and indigestible output.
No more jars for leftover foreign currency: all on your smartphone
I really like the functional approach of PowerShell. The pipeline, while not the end-all-be-all of perfection, is still very, very good and very flexible. Once you get into the functional mindset, it is very easy to write terse, powerful code.

My real wish is that there was a syntax for writing function decorators and function generators. This would be similar to the [cmdletbinding()] syntax, but would allow me to write my own.
This is how harbors work. Ports employee pilots, who board ships, get them through busy waterways, and dock them. The regular crew on a large ship just sits back when coming into port.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_State_Penitentiary
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Blockchain naysayers and why the Internet will fail
Sometimes this language is used specifically when the acquiring company doesn't actually acquire them. Depending on the product/IP, sale price, investors, etc. it's can often be simpler to just extend the entire team individual job offers that include substantial bonuses and retention packages, rather than formally acquire the company and it's IP.

This can be a really nice form of "soft landing" for a startup. It can usually happen quickly too, since job offers don't require board consent like legal acquisition. And unless it's a sizable return (>3x) most seed-stage VCs aren't going to squeeze to get their cash out.

Everyone is happy in the end, and the startup's product also has a better chance of living on since the "acquiring" company doesn't actually take the IP.

(I have no idea if that's what happened in this case. I've just seen it happen elsewhere plenty.)
And how many truckers do you think this job would need compared to now?

It's hard to imagine that not a lot fewer unless you expect that number of trucks on roads would rise by some multiple of now.
sorry forgot i wasn't in 4chan and made a "thought" quote like we do in /b/
No I very much did not make it my strawman. Look at the original announcement email, they themselves list performance as their main motivation.

Please, I can argue down any allegedly rationale for creating Bus1. Try me. You have yet to put forth any convincing argument.

The real bottom line is Linux already has a coherent IPC system but third parties don't like it and are irrationally fixated with an in-kernel solution that reflects their grand idea of what a coherent IPC system should look like. It's childish, it's bad engineering, and it's a waste of effort.
> "BEEP! BEEP! Wake up Jim! Our simulation predicts we'll be getting into an accident after we turn the upcoming bend."

This seems highly unrealistic. If the vehicle can run a simulation and know that it's going to get into an accident it can slow down, stop, pull over or simply avoid the accident all together.

No if there is an emergency it's going to be an "oh shit" moment and the trucker is going to have to grab the wheel and try to correct for a situation they're already in.
The Mythical Swing Voter [pdf]
Half of the US population are terrorist recruiters?
this is a great point. currently millions of individual errors are made by people that cause accidents. the future is 1 software exploited bug can cause millions of accidents. I am assuming overall software will have less fatalities but it would be interesting to see predictions on how the two would compare.
Could this be used as an explanatory tool ( an undergirding) for the phenomenon of mimetics from Generative Anthropology/Rene Girard's work?

Or is it a parallel ... system?
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The notion that "terrorism" is a tactic and not a label for groups has been widely observed.

War has been referred to as "politics with guns".

How petty to try to constrain the free speech of vocal adversaries. The US has invested billions trying to make the world hate Muslims and it's clearly not working well enough.

I'd like our president to vocally criticize Twitter for this move and request that free expression be restored.
I just spent all day trying to figure out why Invoke-SqlCmd only works in certain extremely convoluted ways. I'm going to assume this has more to do with the Sql Server team than it does to do with the powershell team, but still: I cannot be excited about anything to do with Powershell since I'm now up to like 10 Googles per line.
Who proof-read this article?

Someone who knows how to follow the BBC style guide.

ICANN is pronounced "I can" not "I. C. A. N. N." so they write Icann.

edit: See "Acronyms" section in http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/article/art201307021...
The Perl regex is also incorrect, since it assumes that comments were stripped beforehand. It also requires you to have backend processing that knows that <a . (kidding) b @ example.com>, <"a.b"@example.com>, and <a.b@example.com> all refer to the same email address. It would help if people knew that you need to look at RFC 821(/2821/5321) to figure out what constitutes a valid email address instead of RFC 822.
I admire how polite your responses to these posts are. Kudos.
He did not just complete Zen, he completed the high-level design of Zen and it's two successors.

CPUs are designed in a pipelined manner -- once the high-level team finishes up their work and passes it on to the low-level guys, they immediately start working on the next version, with the first version still years away from release. The total cycle from drawing board to store shelves is >5 years, and the skill sets required of high-level designers are very different than those required to turn it into silicon, so this just allows them all to have something to work on.

The long lag time is why chip companies can have disasters like P4 or Bulldozer, and they last so long. When some of the basic assumptions are wrong, the designers won't actually find out until after the design hits silicon, at which point the next two versions are already pretty much locked.
The Idiom Puzzle
A subset means it doesn't work as well or the same way.
I believe it's a joke. Gold isn't a gold-like substance because it is gold. Algol isn't an Algol-like language because it's Algol.

If so, I don't believe it's a good joke.
I played it on PC and had no issues (Windows machine with an old GTX480 Nvidia GPU and 8GB RAM).

That's only a sample size of two though so not sure if people generally have problems with it or not.
Latency isn't a problem that can simply be solved, moving drivers out of cabs might not be feasible as long as there's any need for them.
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Sure, you're correct on that.
Thanks for staying on topic.
Sorry, I meant it to mean that the CEO represents the interests of the employees in that the employees do well as the company does well. Yeah, they get less of the yield than those at the top, but if the company isn't doing well it puts downward pressure on all of their careers. Presumably the employees are there because they support, or are at least neutral, to the goals of the company, and thus share an interest. If they oppose the goals of the business, while I can understand why they might take a job there, I would still argue it's an ethical lapse.
So basically GameRail was before it's time.
I don't know much about the details, but if they truly did publish Hogan's porno and outed Theil, then no. Thiel did the write thing.
I don't see why. Driving is considered a base-level skill in many of the places where Uber operates. It's one of those things you just assume everyone employable can do, like reading or writing. Uber drivers are mostly being paid for their time and for their vehicle, not for their driving skills.
As soon as we end The Drug War.
Windows isn't free. Office isn't free. All of their enterprise server software isn't free.
> Pretty much everyone is saying that interest rates are going up in the US and are going to go up soon.

I wouldn't say that.

According to Bloomberg's interest rate predictor the probability of a hike before the end of the year, ie the definition of soon, is less than 50%.

Even if you go out to the end of 2017 you still only get to 67% probability of a fed hike. And 67% is a far cry from "pretty much everyone".

And even with all of that, the most predicted rate hike is a minuscule 0.25% to 0.5%.

Now, I agree that this is all up for debate and markets can definitely get this wrong, but I stand by my assertion that low rates are here to stay. I really don't think the years of 5-8% rates are coming back any time soon.

But I'm always willing to change my mind if someone can convince me, so back to you.....What makes you think that this era of low rates is going to end?
> The reality is that even at the highest levels of competition there is still a lot of luck.

It really depends on the sport. For instance, football (soccer) is very random, and this is amplified by the tournament format. But in many other sports, there is no suspens at all. Actually, it would be interesting to somehow evaluate the random factor for each sport.
And paste for tasks requiring the opposite of cut, then there's tr, the lightweight sed. And jq for structured queries on JSON. But, all these are built in to poweshell, essentially.
The government, acting as the collective will of the people, believes, due to recent experience, that a housing crash, and the concomitant cascade of mortgage defaults, is something worth making an effort to avoid?

I think that's how the story is supposed to go.

I guess the flip side is that quote by that fellow I read somewhere that went something like: democracy cannot last as a permanent form of government, it can last only until people realise they can vote themselves largess from the public purse.

Let's wait and see what happens.
http://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/
Steam might lose fight for players in the future, but for sure it will not be to Facebook. Worthy opponent it seems is GOG, they are superb platform with great values behind their offering.
Why do people keep confusing Beame.io with Let's Encrypt?
Yes, or you buy Windows. That's the purpose of EEE.

That's similar to saying, use a different word processor. Just in this case Powershell is less used than Microsoft Word.
I thought that's exactly what this article describes:
"Similarly the linker can discard other exported methods, those that are only accessible through reflection, if the corresponding reflection features are not used anywhere in the program. That change shrinks binaries by 5–20%."