skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few days of the year that feel bad, yes, but overall, NYC air quality is decent. Air quality index site: https://waqi.info

Pretty much half the west coast and a good number of other cities in the country have worse air quality.

In fact, right now (which is a particularly hot muggy day in NYC) it's around 55. Parts of Arkansas, Colorado, and Ohio are over 100, and a majority of California is over 70.
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First, I note that you've got from "far less" to "downward pressure." Are you modifying your claim? I think that there is a considerably more colorable argument that it might shave 5 to 10% off the wages of a driver than that it might shave 50% off the wages of the driver.

While shifting the costs of vehicle purchase and maintenance from the driver to Uber is a factor, it's not enough to make driver wages "far less," and Uber has already been offering various assistances to drivers towards vehicle ownership, so nothing very dramatic is happening there -- and in any case, none of that savings will make it to the passenger, who ultimately is paying for the vehicle.

Making "far less" money than a typical Uber driver means around minimum-wage job or below. Let me suggest that there is no large pool of people who are interested in a roughly minimum-wage job with no security or prospect for advancement, who can plausibly save you from dying in a car crash.

(PS: There is no way that Uber would allow its drivers to dictate a novel while a passenger is in the car).
It's down 46% now. Another one to watch is The GEO Group which is down 44%.
The bash I'm running is actually 3 years old. You make it sound like bash was written 27 ago and no one has touched it since then.

Secondly, what constitutes an improvement is a matter of opinion. For example, I don't see this Powersell as an improvement at all.
Powershell isn't competing with bash, it's competing with Python. So then, how does it compare against Python? While plenty of small scripts are still done with bash, I think Python is pretty common for serious production needs. I use it for virtually all scripting these days.

I had a recent experience where a developer spent a day and couldn't get Powershell's webrequest library to do what he wanted. I was able to accomplish the goal in 15 minutes with Python on a Debian system.
Oh. My. God.

Life changing!

Out of curiosity, how did you discover that you could do this?
Or they could just pull out a gun and shoot the driver? It is already easy to do terrible things if you want.
Should I wait for Zen or buy i7 now?
Got it, that make sense. In that case, I wish you the best of luck, and hope someone here can help!
I was about to refute you with a recent example of mine that just needed to serially execute a bunch of commands, and it's well over 20 lines. Then I remembered that I needed to introduce some branching logic, said "not in bash, I'm not", and rewrote it in Python.

So for me, it's not a matter of LoC but complexity. Need to copy file from here to there, then commit to git repo, blah, blah, blah, then kick off a build? Whether it's a 1000 lines or 2, I don't have a problem with doing that in bash. But as soon as I need some logic (or on rare occasions, perf), I go to something else.

Given that, why do you cut shell scripts off at 20 lines? I ask in the spirit of being open to the possibility that maybe I'm doing it wrong. :-)
7 mph is pretty limiting. You can literally run to your destination faster.
It sounds like a reasonable theory on its face. However, the outcome of this is likely that banks will stop making loans all together. If they were to offer mortgages at all, it certainly would not be a 30 year fixed rate product.

It's not correct to say that banks can sell off all of their risk through securitization. They do in fact retain some of the risk. Though most has been transferred.

The buffer is (in theory) in excess of the losses. So, after a crises a bank would be left with the buffer and be able to continue to operate as a going-concern. The question is how to set the buffer and how big ?
You have left tons of negative comments throughout this post[1]. We get it, you don't like the book. Writing a book is not profitable, Trask is going to spend a lot of time just to help out other folks and share his knowledge. Be aware that he is trying to do something nice here, and try to empathize.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=giardini
I would recommend reading a touch about freedom of speech in the US, particularly the 'Shout Fire' thing [0]. That quote comes from a Supreme Court justice in ruling the 1st Amendment doesn't protect criticism of the draft, and is regarded as one of the worst rulings on the 1st amendment from the Supreme Court. While you're broad claims are correct, the US is the most free / least restrictive country in the world in terms of what you can say without legal repercussions (I welcome being corrected here). So much so, that I've found myself shocked at some of the things that aren't allowed in other western democracies. For example, Germany and the ban against Holocaust denial. I understand why they feel that way, I understand denial is a stupid position to take, but I just can't wrap my head around it being illegal. Looking beyond western democracies, to places that seem nice to live in, you get Singapore, as an example. No thanks.

[0]: https://popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackne...
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My (kind of) amazing summer at Boston
In response to the flagged sibling comment: I use Linux as my main OS and have almost non-stop since ages ago. I have in the past half-seriously wondered whether infamous projects that make Linux worse were MS false flag ops. But here, rather than making personal accusations (regardless of how true they might seem to you), it's probably more productive to provide a counterexample, a reminder of MS's negative behavior, or evidence that they haven't really changed. Then either people can see for themselves, or people within MS will see they still have a long way to go and keep pushing for change from within.
If the robots double the profit margins then you can sell half as many widgets and make the same profit.
albeit at 125mm height that's a relatively gigantic nixie tube as compared to those in the old spectrophotometer in my grad school lab.
True, or work out a DND schedule, so that notifs get to you only on certain periods of time. Thing is, this won't "batch" the notifications, it will just shut them up for the period where you're in DND mode, you'll need to check notifications center afterwards or go through all the badged apps to figure out what happened in the meantime.
> If anything, the Go people have repeatedly claimed they don't know best

So why is the defacto vendoring system for the Go tooling incompatible with old Go versions (the "organic" solutions were compatible with Go versions without vendoring support because they were implemented before vendoring support was a thing!)?

The vendor/src hack meant that you could compile with ANY version of Go -- that's important for distributions (and other people who want to build runC and Docker -- put plainly we pin Go versions because of compiler bugs). But no, now we have to use vendor/ which means that now we have to do even more messing around with the GOPATH (which makes rpmbuild even more ugly than it needs to be). sigh
If the adoption of driverless cars succeeds this translates into less automobiles sold by manufacturers to the general public. Won't the auto manufacturers then need to increase the price of each unit sold? Eventually wouldn't Uber's savings from no longer having pay labor costs be lost due to auto makers increase in price per unit of each(now driverless) car sold?

This seems to be a lot exposure for Uber unless they get into the manufacturing business which seems like a rabbit hole. This type of exposure is the same as say a music streaming business that has to pay for content - i.e your business model is predicated on favorable enough terms from a third party in order to make a profit. And we've seen that the way around this is by being vertically integrated such as what Netflix has done with creating its own content.
On the other hand an unified (inclusive) L3 cache helps with maintaining cache coherency, which need to be explicitly handled in a non-unified design.

I guess a big benefit of the separate caches is that if only half cores are in use, you can power half of it down, saving power and TDP.
> Corrections Corp

This sounds like an US metal band from '90s
> It is all the legends of crap that gets send because email isn't even a penny a letter I object to.

Even physical mail is too cheap; advertisement leaflets and "free" catalogues are like 90% of my total mail volume (after putting "do not deliver advertisements to this mailbox" stickers on everything), a worse quota than with email (after setting up basic spam filters).
Seems to be an instance of Cunningham's Law:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
I agree, legislators should add more budget as they expand the definition of criminal behavior. If you want to criminalize up-skirting, all the power but allocate money for the costs. Do not put the burden on corrections department to find money, because you have new prisoners coming your way. Much of the burden of costs move to prisoners was because politicians want to expand the definition of criminal behavior but not the burden of increasing prison population.
The GIF is dead. Long live the GIF
Set gravity of X to 1. Win!

Seriously though. Very cool demo. Great work.
> Quick, easy. In a *nix shell that would be very tricky.

You'd probably need to make an explicit SQL query since you wouldn't have the database integration.
But 99% of what we do are not that of heart surgery. Much of it is playing. Much of it is experimenting. Much of the actual work needs flexibility, familiarity and community more than it needs technical excellence.

Which is why I wrote what I did.

Your reply manages to turn it entirely on its head.

People believe computer science is different from surgery because it is: Nobody dies when my half-assed experiments with OpenGL crashes. Nobody dies if my laptop crashes.

There are certainly niches where it is life and death. Let others take care of that - I don't want anything to do with it.
Swimming immediately next to the wall, as in inches from it, can also have advantages. The fastest way of getting from one side of a pool to another is dolphin kicking along the bottom. The water coming off your stroke pushes against the solid surface, effectively giving you more 'grip' than you would have in open water.
There's not much that needs to be elaborated. Hedge funds don't make any money if they're not generating alpha. the 2 and 20 structure is powerful motivator to search for outsized returns. Hedge funds are in a hard place right now, with a lot of capital being moved out of the industry due to poor performance.

Every hedge fund guy I know constantly stresses about the overall lack of alpha generation in the industry right now. To say thet the point of hedge funds is to avoid taxes is just ridiculous. A company doesn't need to invest in a hedge fund to engineer the type short-term losses and long-term gains. And there's no reason they would, the fees are simply too high for anyone to ever do that.
"more intelligent processes for group decision making at government scale"

Yeah, it's called direct democracy and democratisation of media.
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Definitely agree there. I've moved through several languages - c, c++, java and now python. Over the years my work has progressed from real hard development to more of an analysis & design & architecture role. So, when I decided to get back in touch with programming and complete problems on online judges as a hobby - I just went with c/c++ (c++ just to use the template library).
[Redacted for not towing the party line close enough.]
I wonder the same, but I hope it succeeds.

When PowerShell was written we knew more than when Bash, let alone the original Bourne Shell was designed. Powershell understands that parsing is sometimes hard. Powershell does not invite data-insertion attacks with the the fervour of Bash. In short, it does many things right that would Bash do too if it could be rewritten.

And yet -- I've rarely found it useful in practice. But it's hard to judge that, since I don't do as much in Windows as I do on Unix. So this move will level the playing field a bit, and we shall have a fairer comparison.
I think PowerShell would actually be way ahead of Bash. But we have things so much better than Bash. Python/Ruby let you do a lot of amazing stuff (not shells, I know, but still immensely more useful scripting languages than what you can do in Bash).

Also, if you're still using Bash, I'd highly recommend looking at newer shells. Fish is pretty amazing. I've been using it over over a year. There are others too like Zsh.
Unfortunately, probably not:
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/fcc-official-most-ame...
This guy sells products to hedge funds.
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What you can't do so easily with text is also just auto-convert that object directly to JSON or YAML or CSV, for that matter, and forward that easily into your favorite JSON/YAML/CSV exploration tool.
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Except that they added a bunch of new warts that don't have any relation to CMD.EXE. They took the opportunity to re-invent how a shell works from the strongly-typed object perspective but then they copied some of terrible syntax of 40 year old unix shells. I just don't understand it.

I'd rather write scripts in pure C#.
It's nice when it works, but it's a pain to write a command-line utility that outputs into objects. Whereas in Unix, everything automatically outputs into text, so you have to work hard to prevent it from being chainable to the system.

There are also details of Powershell that are very annoying, such as the lack of < redirect, and the difficulties it has on binary output sometimes.
Well, it's not an improvement, it's just a different design-choice. I for example much prefer Bash's way of doing it.

Also, Bash does have a way of doing it the Powershell-way, if you want that, as others have commented.

Which is also why I disagree with your statement. Bash may be old, but neither the underlying technology nor the use-case changed much in that time. So, there is not a whole lot where you can innovate with a new tool, at least not for such basic tasks, and instead, Bash has matured throughout 27 years to perfectly fit that underlying technology and use-case that millions of people have.
I like Microsoft's move here. They first made available bash on Windows and then PowerShell on Linux. So no one is going to cry. And now they will improve PowerShell and win over users with a good tool rather than just because that's the only one available.
And should be responsible, including fines and jail terms, for any harm that happens to the individual while under their care.
Exactly. The addresses would need to be both hierarchical and systematical for people to be able to use them manually and infer unknown adresses from known ones. Otherwise you might as well use coordinates directly or send a shortened Google Maps link.
As another interesting point, it's codified into American law that the rights outlined in the constitution (freedom of speech for example) are not granted by the laws, but a source outside them. The constitution merely recognizes those freedoms, but has no ability to grant or remove them.

This of course wouldn't stop the practical removal of said freedoms by a despotic regime, but as a philosophical point, I find it interesting, and it has mattered in court rulings in the past.
OK, fine, I guess we'll privatize the courts too since you asked for it.
no terrorism in Rio

You must not be a bathroom door.
Very true. I got that, and co-workers do have access to passwords and ssh keys in case I'd disappear, but I was hoping others on here had better solutions to these issues.
Many would argue that M&A is Cisco's primary market.
... as if all development of C stopped with the first ANSI standard?

C99 and C11 are great languages. VLAs, anonymous structs, variable initializers, atomics... they're not the C of the 80s and 90s. They still have the usual warts but the tooling is great and support is coming along for the newest features to most platforms.

While the spirit of, "trust the programmer," might have been a historical accident there is some merit for its usefulness. Our chief problem as programmers is managing data: taking some source inputs, performing a transformation, and sending the output somewhere. That's true of video games, web applications, embedded sensors, etc. As a high-level language, C is one of the few that gives the programmer some control over how memory is mapped to the target platform and allows them to build the appropriate abstractions on that hardware.

It's also a loaded weapon... humans make mistakes and inevitably those mistakes make it into our programs. When working in a language like C one must conduct ones self accordingly.

I'm a fan of FP and ML-style languages. I'm looking forward to a day when we can have our cake and eat it too. It'd be nice to be able to define how memory should be handled for a particular application at the granularity of the target platform while still getting the safety guarantees.

I like where Blow is going with his Jai language. It'd be neat to see more research in this area.
It does... Badly... And you used to have to pay for it...
Let's call this what it is: a real estate crisis.

Real estate is a bigger and harder problem then people give credit for.

Us "hackers" can make the world prosperous and inexpensive through innovations like self-driving cars, 3D printers, and so on, but the cost of real estate is baked into EVERYTHING: the cost of food in the store or warehouse, the cost of your haircut, the cost of your dwelling, the cost of your office, and by extension, the opportunity cost of you compared to outsourced labor from somewhere cheaper.

A lot of this is our own fault: we want neighborhoods with "character." We introduce regulations that slaughter high-density living like requiring all bedrooms have windows (to protect us from actual, fire-style slaughter). We require nearly all living spaces to have full kitchens, even if the people living there almost entirely eat out (the ancient Romans didn't have a kitchen in every home, but they did have plenty of eateries).

Housing and real estate cannot be "innovated" away. It cannot be "disrupted." It can only be solved with a lot of hard work and sacrifice for a way of life we are lead to believe is the only way forward.
This is what I have been waiting for right here!
US Justice Department will phase out use of privately owned prisons
This crashed my NVIDIA driver.
Wow, prisons on the stock market...? Interesting...
I find it curious how some people seem to not believe in moral relativism. Do they not recognise that by doing so they are saying that they themselves are "evil" and immoral?

If you look at the contemporaries of the British Empire they do not stand out as exceptional either good or bad morally. Meanwhile, if you compare the Nazis to their contemporaries they do however stand out (though not nearly as some people might think).

To me it seems rather cruel and unfair to label someone or something as "immoral" if they are acting within the limits of accepted and expected behaviour in their environment.
i have been doing the same thing, albeit a bit slowly, but with python :) it's great fun, once you start seeing something tangible on the screen.

then it becomes very difficult to stop ;)
There are only around 100 federal prisons total. This is a large chunk for the federal level. State prisons are a much larger issue.
I wonder what's the difference between an object-pipable shell and a lisp machine (only 10% troll here). Kalman Reti said that passing pointers as IPC meant zero perf penalty btw. Text serialization has design value sometimes, but the amount of cpu cycles allocated on string munging seems flabbergasting.
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I don't use the other options if POOL is available and most of my friends are the same way.
Well most countries have the same or worse intellectual property laws. It's just that the U.S. is most prolific because when people are pirating movies, video games, music, or software they are very likely to be pirating American stuff versus, say, stuff from Malaysia. I understand the reaction from American media and software companies.

Now, with that being said I'm very much supportive of "pirating" in that I don't believe that it's stealing since that would mean corporations are entitled to potential future profits.

Another thing you pointed out was how ineffective it is. And you're right. Basically nobody cares anymore unless you're making a noticeable amount of money from doing so or just generally doing something other than pirating stuff.

Aside from questions about intellectual property, I think the U.S. generally has pretty great laws regarding the Internet. Compare that to, say, Australia where vaginas that don't look "normal" are banned, or the outright censorship in most of the world. With the U.S. being the epicenter of the software industry for the time being, it's very sensitive to any regulation or law involving the Internet.
The public transportation in SF is too awful for any expansion to work. They can barely figure out rush hour with less than a million people!

There is no possible way it can convert into a sprawling metropolis when the muni "lines" all share one basic tube and one path. It's a joke.

New York works because even when the president is in town you can get from downtown to uptown in 15 minutes on an express train. I can barely move 10 blocks in SF in that same time at 5pm.

I think the tech activity will move elsewhere in 30 years.
Our engineers used to spend hours each week manually preparing stat reports in excel to send to our enterprise clients. I wrote a library that is essentially an excel templater that queries the database for the metrics, populates a spreadsheet and emails it to the client. We've been integrating it into every project for 5 years now.
I went and looked back at the Hacking bundle and there's some books that overlap into this one, such as the command line and some of the Python books.
Postfix can do it (set default transport to hold, flush the built up queue via cron and `mailq -q`), I'm sure other MTAs can do it too.
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You can't read that Forbes link and say "no" if you know a little bit about finance:

> Wall Street Funding of America [...] circulating offers to make low-doc loans to borrowers with credit scores as low as 660 FICO, as long as the borrower was self-employed, seeking no more than 60% of the value of a home and had six months of mortgage payments in reserve.

660 FICO is not sub-prime by any standard, and it requires 40% down AND substantial reserves. That risk profile is great, and 180 degrees away from the old stated-income loans.

Anecdata: I've opened 4 mortgages since the crash, 1 with a big bank and 3 with smaller lenders. Every one of them required substantial and verified documentation, and my FICO is just under 800.

Lending is nowhere close to the craziness it used to be!
How would that be hard in a *nix shell?

mysql > SELECT column_name, data_type, numeric_precision FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema = ? AND table_name = ? AND column_name LIKE "%int%"