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I get your point, you're using the word "profit" in its narrowest accounting sense.
also this doesn't take into account the recent Bitcoin price action from 5k to 20k and back down to 10k. BTC outperformed massively.
This is one of the only places in the US where public transportation is kind of good. Many people in NYC don't own a car and don't even know how to drive. It boggles my mind the amount of people complaining about how expensive it is to drive to Manhattan. ...Why did you drive in the first place? Unless you need to carry something large/heavy, there's no real reason to drive there. Just park, take a cab/train there, and once you're there, it's faster than driving to use the subway to get places.
Sorry, typo. Yes, 10pm of course

I share pretty much the same experience. Five to six hours of coding is a good day in terms of work for me.
Linux distros are different from Linux the kernel, and handle security differently. Greg has some good comments in this thread for how the kernel does it.
Another problem with reality: most wall-floor angles are not exactly 90 degrees! Anyone who has tried to build custom cabinetry and shelving can attest to this.
Thanks for the comments, folks. Apparently this post is too controversial or off-topic (or maybe just deemed silly) for Hacker News - it's been removed from the ranking!
I've never found value in TV (cable or otherwise) because it seems to be mostly ads these days, but I do a very similar thing in the car. I subscribe to SiriusXM radio (because most channels are commercial-free while FM radio around me is loaded with more ads than music). I have a music streaming service and music on my phone I can pick from, but more often than not I don't want to pick my music. Especially while I'm driving. So I turn on a station I like and can listen ad-free. And if I flip to another station, it's highly likely I'm flipping to another song being played, not to another ad being played like FM radio or TV.

If cable TV could be commercial-free like satellite radio, I might be a subscriber. It's the same reason I cancelled my NYT.com subscription: I don't like paying for the privilege of watching advertisements. If I'm paying you money, I'd better get an ad-free experience. If my monthly fee doesn't cover the cost of replacing ads, then you're not charging me enough.

Maybe Netflix should set up channels where they just play shows back to back like cable TV does.
>HN discourages duplicate posting on a topic

I would grudgingly agree, but found it funny that the following example sat on the front page the same day as your comment, and the second post exceeded the original's points & comments!

It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16175646 (currently 146 points, 105 comments)

9 hours later: It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16179181 (currently 341 points, 158 comments)
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>Otherwise poor people are subsidizing roads reserved for the rich that they can't even use.

Welcome to the state of infrastructure everywhere, but especially in big cities like NYC.
> I just record the show when it's aired overnight (simultaneously with the US) and fast forward them at ×30

I'm in the same boat and do something similar. The only thing I really watch "live" are sports. English Football on the weekends, Hockey during the week. Any show I want to watch, I'll record it so I can focus on the substance of the show and fast forward through the commercials. This allows me to watch an hour show in roughly 40 minutes.
There is a reason why buildings in China have nets to prevent suicide and Japan has a work to death problem. Working that much is not good or healthy.
Amazing, thankyou!
You can use a subscriber link, but Greg chose not to. Jon Corbet is a mutual friend, and LWN is essentially a two person shop (Jon and Jake do all of the work, and they are not getting rich off of what is essentially a labor of love).

So if someone decides they want to use a somewhat more proactive way of encouraging people to subscribe to LWN, personally I think it's appropriate and its his choice. Just as someone who wants to post a subscriber link to Hacker News is also appropriate. (But you should seriously think about subscribing, even at the Starving Hacker level, if at all possible. I subscribe at the highest tier even though my company has a corporate subscription, Just Because.)
How practical is that for the people who are currently driving in NYC?

In Chicago, the vast majority of people who live in the suburbs and work in the loop take Metra. But Chicago's transit system is so heavily hub-and-spoke that the public transit just isn't practical if you don't work near the hub, and plenty of people don't. For them, it's frequently a choice between an hour or so in traffic, and more like 2 hours split among some combination of traffic (to get to the commuter train station), train, and maybe bus. I can't really blame anyone for deciding that 4 hours total commuting is not an option.
If Nintendo lost or threw away their own copies, the software would no longer exist for Nintendo to use, apart from pirated ROMs. The implication is that software piracy is sometimes the only viable means of preserving software in the long term.
Maybe people are ultimately imperfect and others are looking to process to smooth over those imperfections.
Looks interesting--I think you're onto something big here. Out of curiosity, did you write the app in Swift or Objective-C? And how long did the initial production version take until app store submission?
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Then don't go places you can't afford to pay the externality for. It doesn't screw the poor, its allocating finite resources in a market-based economy. If we want to socialize the cost of infrastructure (which I agree with) then taxes need to be levied. Virginians aren't paying Manhattan property tax so why is it so outrageous to tax people entering over an expensive and congested bridge?
This has typically been the case for probably close to a decade now. At some point around the P4 extreme days (iirc) they made a business decision to stop getting utterly killed by Newegg and Tigerdirect. There was a lot of talking on the various enthusiast boards about it at the time whether or not it was going to be a good long-term move.

The loss-leader strategy appears to have worked! I typically try to buy from Microcenter now when possible, and I almost always give back that $50 cpu/mobo combo savings in margin on the rest of the build (and then some) simply due to convenience.
Do you not have due dates or stakeholders that want predictability?
More in depth article (well, at least compared to the CNBC piece) here on Financial Times, authored by the SV investor. The comments section has some good feedback as well.

https://www.ft.com/content/42daca9e-facc-11e7-9bfc-052cbba03...

I get some of the investor's complaints about pc culture, and at the same time I wonder if this guy considers the ideal corporation one where an "employee" literally "works" 24/7, never leaves his/her desk for anything thanks to IV tubes for food, digestion, and medications to keep oneself constantly awake; and the bio-energy of the employee is harvested to supply energy for the office building.

Quite the recipe for individual and societal flourishing...
Multi-billionaire with wealth accumulated from institutional gambling and rent seeking feels that wage-slaves complain about "inequality" to much and should instead behave like people in countries with no human rights.

Sounds legit.
Ha! This is amazing
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that many populations in the West have become more passive. Especially when tools such as weapons have been taken away. Fatalism and apathy are reasonable responses to enforced helplessness.
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I agree, I sometimes print to PDF stack overflow threads, now we have some PDFS!

Thanks for the link.
The London congestion charge is £11.50, and it works pretty well.
London has something similar, the congestion charge. Has helped somewhat, and def makes regular driving in central London a 'you did what?' thing. It's lifted on the weekend, which is nice if you want to pop to IKEA or whatever.

I think they're planning on pushing something similar all the way out to the north circular, and maybe the M25 for heavily polluting traffic.
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Tax funded roads being gated off to those without higher incomes doesn't sound fair to me in any case, even if there are alternatives.
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No they don’t. Seriously, you watch too many movies.

Corporations have no power over you. You can voluntarily do business with them, but they don’t have the power of coercion.

Please name one instance where a corporation had the power to forcibly coerce someone without the government’s backing.

To be clear, don’t cite voluntarily-entered contractual obligations.
What does having discussions about ethics, morality or equality have to do with working 14 hour, six day workweeks (84h)?

Look, there's genuinely important discussions to be had right now. If he wants his son to grow up addicted to a social network he interfaces with through a screen, or his daughter to be subjected to casual sexism, because it'd hurt some engineers' feelings to be confronted with that toxic reality, then cry me a river. I for one am glad to see someone making a stand, some of the discourse we see now is meaningful and I'm happy for it. (far from all of it, don't get me wrong. but a lot of these discussions are way overdue and we shouldn't throw away the baby with the bathwater).

That having been said, this article really looks like one of those 'we paraphrased 5 minutes of nuanced commentary into a shitty one-liner'. I'm sure I'll still disagree with his more elaborate views, but I get the feeling there's more to his argument than this article supposes.
"By being slower and having to follow a very strict set of rules to make an image, you find a way to work around the limitations of the process and the process pays you back, tenfold."

This effect comes up all the time when I'm learning about great projects or people in history - creativity that arises in the face of limitation.

For example, the rock climber Pamela Shanti Pack developed a condition that made it painful for her to grip, which eventually pushed her toward crack climbing, and offwidth climbing in particular. She has since made a name for herself with first ascents of some of the hardest offwidths ever climbed.

I don't often see limitations self-imposed like this, though.
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What makes this also scary is that without the rushed traveler program he still wouldn't know this was on his record.
I'm not sure you read the article in question.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

The costs aren't high because of cost of living, they're high because of cushy agreements with workers unions and construction companies, among a myriad other things.
Control?

Not having Global Entry doesn't prevent you from traveling anywhere, you just don't get to use the fast lane going through Customs or TSA lines. Global Entry is elective, not a requirement.

In other words, you just have normal status.

The appeal process should work better in this case than it did.
Because if this people gave away this money, the effect on the very poor might be noticeable for some months but not sustainable. In no time they would be very poor again and the ones that gave the money away would be unable to give more.

Paul Graham has an essay about this error, how people thinks that there's a fixed amount of money. Once you understand that wealth is created and how, you can't talk like that with a straight face.
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Not as a defense of Google, but what's so wrong about Google not contacting FreeBSD? It's obvious that not all operating system vendors could be contacted (should they be contacting small hobbyist operating system projects? What about small niche commercial ones?), so choices of who to contact and when had to be made.

If FreeBSD was contacted early on, would we be hearing these gripes from some NetBSD or Dragonfly BSD developer? Maybe that's actually a reason BSD was contracted late, maybe they expected interested scrutiny from the other BSD projects from any kernel patches. Linux certainly ended up exhibiting that behavior, maybe they were worried about it there too but Linux's size meant a different call was made?

I understand why BSD devs are upset, but the complaining comes across as exactly what it is, whining they didn't get treated like the big boys. It sucks. Linux used to be right there with you, and neither got any special treatment, but times have changed.
Great collection. Thanks for making them available to the community.
I've de-aded my media consumption to such a degree that ads are now actually weird to me. They get my attention solely because I'm so used to not seeing them.

One thing that sticks out: A ton of TV advertising is the same ads that were running when I was a kid. Not all of it, but a lot more than I'd expect. Anyone else notice this?
This is a really great effort to compile relevant answers into a narrative.

Is there any way that the community can contribute to adding new resources to the list, so that the books can be updated in future releases?
One problem I found is that streaming services have too much mental overhead. It sounds funny, but look at Netflix original content; Most of the story writing is "too good" and too dark (like most of their content seems to be about murderers or spooky stuff or substance abuse). I have to remember what happened in the previous episode and pay attention so I know whats happening in the next episode

Things on cable are more focused on self contained episodes. Black mirror accomplished this but again, it was too emotionally heavy. Netflix is too focused on binge watchers.

I haven't really found content (except old series from cable) that I can just "zone out" and be entertained like Futurama, cooking or auto shows and not worry if i didnt watch all of it.

I'm overseas and so I dont have a lot of the series from cable on Netflix. The content it has is good. But its not something I want to unwind with in the background.
I always suspected that the end goal of the wealthy was to push America into the Authoritarian Capitalist model of China or Russia. I never expected them to be so explicit about it.
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I have the same experience. I tend to try to buy stuff that Amazon sells directly and I regularly pay a bit more for items that seem to have better reviews or, at least, less reviews that give me pause. And I do buy a fair bit of electronics and so forth. I wonder how many of the people who seem to have such bad experiences buy solely on price even when the price seems too good to be true.

Case in point. I just bought a couple of Samsung Qi wireless chargers. There were certainly cheaper ones listed but this one won Wirecutter recommendation so it's what I got. Are there counterfeits? Probably. But they probably aren't packaged like the legit item.
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From one of the links: "For example, in the CES a person working two part-time jobs of 20 hours a week is counted as having two 20-hour jobs, but in the CPS, the same individual is counted as one worker working 40 hours."

So both surveys include part time jobs, not sure how that contradicts the original point.
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Chernobyl had far worse consequences than you are indicating, even taking into account a coals plant's lifetime impact from mining to air pollution.

Aside from the headline numbers of 31 dead and 237 with acute radiation poisoning other costs include:

- Encasing the site in a sarcophagus that will need to be maintained essentially forever. Immediate disaster response was estimated at $18B in today's dollars.

- A 30km exclusion zone from which 135,000 people were evacuated. Costs from this include costs of resettlement, loss of essentially all capital, cropland, and infrastructure in the zone

- Outside the zone millions of tons of contaminated earth were trucked for containment. Remediation is ongoing to this day and will continue indefinitely. Certain agricultural production is limited by type and practice to reduce probability of contamination from deeper in the soil.

- Health monitoring response across Europe in the aftermath, plus increased monitoring forever in the neighboring countries

- An unknown number of additional cancers and birth defects

There are additional costs, mostly more evacuees than were likely strictly necessary and compensation to others affected. Its unclear how much of this are legitimate costs or not, but its worth noting that uncertainty and lack of transparency themselves have costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...
That's a lot of false positives. If 4% of people actually have one of these cancers at any point in time (a number that seems quite high) that means that 20% of positive results would be false in the general population.
At least cardboard decomposes, whereas plastic remains in a landfill for eternity.
While you are right, for me WebGL is nothing more than just for prototyping purposes, in what concerns mobile devices.

Most of the WebGL demos that get posted around here, always have issues running on my mid-range devices, that don't have any issues playing my collection of 3D games.

So I still look forward to a 3D Web API that can actually compete with native 3D across all mobile devices, not only on flagship ones.

Or proper implementations of WebGL, if that is actually the issue.
I share your concern about excess consumerism, but it's hard to say that the old advertising-driven model was better. The very essence of broadcast media was trying to expose viewers to propaganda aimed at encouraging purchases. Malls are (or were) large spaces devoted to almost nothing else but shopping, and we built ridiculous numbers of them.
Thanks for reminding me, I really need to re-read that book.
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I really like Alertbox by the Nielsen Norman Group. Lots of great information on UX.

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No, it's like saying the only compiler for x86 is created by Intel (paid for by the sale of processors) and they therefore don't have an incentive to make the compiler particularly good at optimizing. If it does a better job at optimizing, people can get away with cheaper processors.

I'm not saying there is any intentional area bloating going on, just that there is little incentive to make Vivado better at optimizing.

Read https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5018 to see where I'm coming from.

EDIT:
It makes a lot of sense in my head, but perhaps I'm overlooking something important. I'd be interested to read in more detail why it doesn't make sense to you.
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Agreed. I wonder if any manager would ever put in "walks", or "cool downs" into the schedule. Meaning allocate a week (or some time span) in between each sprint to do all those things you wish you had time to do in the sprint.

I know a "walk" is yet just another physical analogy for a software production process (which the analogies don't always work), but maybe it is more of a cultural mindset to value longterm team health without it becoming just a "slacking" week?
Since surprisingly nobody has mentioned it in the comments here yet, we have a similar scheme in place in London, and have done for quite some time. It's only for the most central/congested zone and has had a hugely beneficial impact on congestion.

That being said, it almost never makes sense to drive a car inside central London anyway as the public transport is very reliable and has almost full coverage, and it's dealing with a very different problem in the first place (old horse and cart windy roads adjusting for the modern age).
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This is a prime example of the practice of lying with numbers. There are two very basic "cost" graphs which are notably missing from this narrative, and the addition of "bytes" as a major factor in deciding the value of a game to players.

The two missing graphs are: Cost per unit sold, and revenue per unit sold. As basic as these are to any good cost/benefit analysis, their absence indicates that they do not agree with the narrative that the price of games needs to go up; that companies need to milk more money out of their customers.

As for bytes, the presence or absence of bytes has no practical impact on the value of a game to a consumer. If it did, Duke Nukem Forever would be a game worthy of game of the century, whereas Faster Than Light would be forever consigned to the scrapheap.

Perhaps the most telling in this narrative is EA's own comment to investors that shutting down the sale of lootboxes in Battlefront would not result in them losing money. This indicates that retail sales alone were sufficient to offset the cost of development, licensing, and marketing.

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I also don't condone piracy, but to imply that we should feel sorry for these companies who are barely scraping by is blatantly dishonest. It is especially dishonest when you consider that the bigger publishers (the ones making the outlier games on all of those cost charts) have annual profits in the billions while (oops, rant didn't end) they prey on those susceptible to gambling addictions.
My neighborhood is old. Lots are generally 1/10 acre, and many houses are under 1000sqf. So questions for us aren't about building new, but rather about how to maintain the neighborhood for the future. How do we replace old houses that are falling apart without changing the essential character of the neighborhood? How can we get some more small businesses and restaurants without giving way to strip malls and big boxes? And the current controversy... there's a possibility that a light rail route will pass within a block of my house, down the major in-out drag for the immediate neighborhood. The light rail does us no good, but because it's a relatively short residential pass, we will have a hard time resisting.
The Agile Manifesto suffers from "the curse of knowledge": The signatories are all very experienced, and deeply understand all of the differences between projects and people and when to be flexible and when to be rigid, and they know that it's important to not specify a method for every situation. But there are many, many people entering the software industry who don't have their years of experience, and who need very clear, basic instructions as a starting point, and hence Scrum steps in to fill the gap. What's unfortunate is that scrum isn't a program for developing software managers from rigid, by-the-book managers into experienced, agile managers: Instead it encourages newbie practices for everyone, forever.
Probably not. The question is, what does the prepositional phrase modify: "largest" or "built." You took it to modify "built." There's no syntactical requirement that it modify one or the other, that I'm aware of. The choice must be based on meaning and interpretation. Few, if any, can take over a century to build anything, so modifying "largest" is more reasonable.
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Absolutely incredible. Thanks for all the effort.
IMHO your suggestion makes it unnecessarily easy for other journalists to distance themselves.
"Nonono, THAT guy is not really a Journalist! Among us, the REAL Journalists, there's no systemic problem whatsoever!"

Same applies for other groups and their swept-under-the-carpet problems, I don't really want to bash on Journalists specifically.