skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's confusing the way it is written and there's no actual map but:

"In turn, that means drivers can enter Midtown and Lower Manhattan by two bridges without paying as long as they go directly to the F.D.R. Drive along the East River and then continue on it until they are out of the congestion zone."

I believe what they're saying is that you still enter the congestion zone via those two bridges but you can stay on FDR drive and exit the zone without getting on interior streets [ADDED: and not get charged. FDR Drive is the road that runs along the East River.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#Development
I work in drug discovery. You're right that the bench-scientists don't usually get rich. But it's an extraordinarily risky, expensive, and unpredictable business and for every billion dollar drug there's a graveyard of failed companies and projects that didn't make it. The only business reason to take those risks are for a chance at patent-protected profit. And those bench scientists wouldn't have labs to work in if investors and rich companies weren't willing to pay for it.
I agree that a huge amount of the suffering in the world, possibly most of it, can be traced back to bad decisions on the part of someone who should have known better. A lot of this definitely comes down to those 'wants'. Right now I have a household budget problem because someone wanted a new luxury item, it's terrible.

All the same, let's not forget there are huge numbers of people in terrible situations they did not bring upon themselves. These are the people worth helping, even if it means a bunch of selfish, badly behaved people get helped along with them. At some point, mitigating the consequences of people (predictably) behaving badly has to be looked at as basic damage control.
Yes, "just" to get around constitutional rights. The constitution applies to everyone within the United States, citizen or otherwise. Removing them from US soil simplifies the equation somewhat.
Worth noting that was the creator of Homebrew rather than the post author/a current maintainer (I say this as I don't want to take any credit for creating something I didn't).
> but I haven't heard of it the other way around

I can't find the article I read this from, but a few years ago (back when GoG was 'Good Old Games'), there was an article about how license holders often didn't have any of the actual game material, they just happened to own the license to them through mergers / aquisitions / bankruptcies / whatever. So GoG would have to track down old published copies of games for them (either through second hand shops, or eBay, or the internet) and then restore them (using a combination of internet / open source tools, or their own work), in order to sell them on their store.

Presumably, if the internet 'pirates' had not done the work of backing this software up and preserving it, a number of GoG's titles simply would not exist today in any form, and could no longer be sold (even if the license holders wanted to)

I would imagine downloading a 'pirated' copy of the work is not piracy when you already hold a valid legal license to that work, by definition.
So what if they did? They own the rights to the Mario ROM.
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"Stealing vacation days"
My team moved from scrum to a kanban style process a couple years ago. The benefits were immediate. We no longer have drawn out sprint planning meetings where we discuss requirements of features that we never end up working on in that sprint. We don’t waste time debating complexity of features. Everything is now just ad hoc. When we need more requirements definitions, we pull the necessary members of the team together and discuss it. When we see that there needs to be architectual discussions and high level planning, we do it immediately when we recognize the need for it. The idea that you can try and commit to or even forecast how much can be completed for a period of time is pretty absurd. Just identify the minimum requirements of what needs to be done and do it. Retrospective is still productive. But sprint planning is a waste of time IMO.
I still think it ironic that when looking at the actual Agile manifesto at http://agilemanifesto.org/ (which is short and uncomplicated), that the first line is "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" and these days practicing agile, at least in a big-house corporate environment feels like anything but.
It also creates differentiation in a competitive world.
no, that's combustion, clearly a chemical reaction. Sure, you can use a laser to cut paper, but the teacher was talking about scissors.
Is that even a dig at Communism? I read it more that OP was commenting on how Marx's dream hasn't come to fruition at all...
Should likely read the comments by the author about just what is and what isn't made up.
They get all of the screen time, though.
What idea did I 'previously advance'?
Let's say you do 2 week sprints as part of your process. You do a sprint, finish it, and then do another sprint immediately after. How is that viable? Effectively it means that you never stop sprinting. I don't think it's sustainable.
A lot of people here seem to conflate the pharmaceutical companies causing the issue with the entire pharmaceutical industry. Even in the article, the hospital reps say they are specifically targeting the handful of bad actors, like Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Martin Shkreli types, who specialize in buying up cheap/old drugs and jacking up the prices. This is not a group of hospitals trying to take on the entire industry. Nor is it an entire industry taking advantage of hospitals/patients.
If you read the actual Agile manifesto, what you are doing now is more agile than scrum :)
This sounds like you've got data backing this up. Do you have a link?
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Though we work more than farmers did 150 years ago:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...

This was especially true in the Northern European countries where snow and lack of daylight would make it virtually impossible to work during the winter.
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Well, then Apple users will just see what a Firefox user sees today when they visit Google Earth: Your Browser is not supported.

This isn’t an issue – there’s more people using Firefox, or even more unusual browsers, which can’t use half the web, than there are people using Apple devices.
Jordan Peterson might have defended well compared to an average person, but I was still surprised too see him uncomfortable and expending extra energy to answer the questions than what I expected. Those were hard questions, but he would have surely expected those kind of questions before going to the interview. He did not look well prepared, and some of his answers lacked the clarity and punch which we can usually see in his youtube lectures.
Just to counter the other responses here. Yes, and it's even more dreadful than you might imagine if you've never done it. I recommend running fast and far away if you ever find yourself interviewing on a team where pairing is the default assumption.
You interact with websites using physical means, so it's an important aspect of how users experience them. If a website has tiny buttons and icons, it might be hard to use with a phone. On a large screen computer with a precision pointing tool it might be preferable that they are small. If the information density is ten words per 2000 vertical pixels, it's going to be a pain in the ass with a scroll wheel, not so much on a tablet where scrolling has almost friction-less inertia. Low contrast might be bad if you are using a phone, great if you're in a dark room.

If it's your job to improve the user experience, you're doing a bad job if ergonomics is not a consideration.
Yes, I too have a paper atlas (EU) in the glovebox, there is something in online/navigator maps that somehow prevents me from having a "general idea" of the whereabouts, when you zoom out you often lose details, and at least for me it is confusing whilst with the paper map I find it easier to orientate myself.

BTW I also have a spare charging cable/adapter for the car, actually I have one of those "generic" octopus like cables that fit most phones, with a USB A plug on the other end and the 12 V to 5 V adapter, the cable can be used also to charge from a USB port of a computer or from a "generic" charger with a USB receptacle.
> It doesn't take 800 people to make a mediocre game. You can make a great one with 8, but many big orgs aren't structured in a way to take advantage of that.

There is no sure path to making a great game (or a great anything), so corporate entities cannot depend on it - investors demand predictability. What they CAN depend on though is throwing hundreds of people into making a game of unknown quality (probably mediocre) but with amazing assets, and possibly with an outside IP (a Batman game etc.). So far, this strategy seems to be a valid one.
I just recently learned about this. It's unbelievable. How can anyone defend a $15 toll? I'm glad I don't have any business in NYC.
I think if you have traction then you could justify this but you could also not justify it either. Same without having traction. IMO I think he's wrong here. Pretty sure there is academic research backing that up.
I wouldn't worry about that. Please allow Windows to determine what platform you are running. It knows best, after all.
well that's precisely why the discussion is open – Apple can come in with their (arguably selfish) ideas, but they can't impose them on other big players such as MS, Google and Mozilla. In an ideal world this prevents the final common API from only working for one of them.
- I remember getting on mosaic and thinking what is that ugly thing. Besides there are plenty of free editors out there already.

-couple years later, the internet that could be a pretty cool yellow pages.

- couple years later, I remember a lot of people saying why would anyone buy XYZ online with out touching it first.
"What is this question?"

They're not asking if it would be nice to have, they're asking if it can be economically feasible now. If there isn't going to be a very large use case for open but inferior processors, a lot of money will be lost by anyone investing. That isn't a problem with software.
It actually pains me to say this - but yes.
But isn't the main point that it motivates people to get tested further, and sooner, when outcomes can be better? It's a sky high false negative rate that would really take the wind out of the sails for me about this.
Yeah so?

> The FreeBSD Project is run by around 500 committers, or developers who have commit access to the master source code repositories and can develop, debug or enhance any part of the system.

I doubt there are 500 people with push access to the main Linux repository. Again, the FreeBSD folks just have their shit together.
Large amounts of traffic
means more tolls collected. They could get by fine on a normal toll amount. $15 is indefensible. Why is the answer "screw the poor"?
The combination of your comment and the parent article reminded me of when I was first getting involved in VR/AR research in grad school, and realized that I had inadvertently started perceiving the quality of rendering in VR as a "good enough" approximation of the real world. Simple geometry, lighting, ambient occlusion, bump/displacement maps, etc. I realized I had to get myself out of the lab and into reality again to really observe all the minute details that we just can't capture at this point in VR (even ignoring all the senses besides sight). It's easy to fall into the tempting trap of letting your mental models and abstractions become how you perceive things.
If you have a normal bicycle without modifying the steering column then you were using countersteer whether you realized it or not. Even if you weren't toughing the handlebars, the lean initiates a countersteer. And you need countersteer again in the opposite direction to re-center yourself. If there's video or experimental setup info I'd like to see it.
I recall Herb Sutter saying that companies collaborating on the C++ standards had to do it via an organization like the ISO to avoid the risk of antitrust(?) charges.

I wonder if the "cabal" you mentioned actually broke those laws?
Did anyone else enjoy it for what it was? I get the criticisms, you want the web to be homogenised and free from any form of expression that doesn't present every piece of information in it's most human-machine digestible form, I get it. But it was pretty simple to use and the flair was minimal. I don't understand the pitchforks. There's a few minor annoyances like the back button not working as expected, but they are very minor for a site so small.
Do you have examples of these 'financial and monetary policies' you're referring to?

What I see is that Wal-Mart makes a ton of money and their employees have to be on food stamps and still work 80 hour weeks while the owners reap all of the profit.

To me this is simply unregulated capitalism which nowdays has become thinly masked slavery.
As someone living in Brooklyn who drives to NJ regularly, I wonder if this will increase congestion on the Staten Island bound route to NJ. People will dodge the Holland Tunnel to avoid this surcharge.
I agree, I have the same experience.
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I agree some parts of our society have basically forbidden any kind of discussion. That is in need of real change. Respectable and honest discussions between adults should be allowed.

Sucks that conference speakers are being "checked" for political affiliations. Why not let the topic stand on its own?

But of course, everyone is free to not listen to people that don't support them in some way. It's a delicate line.

> "grumbling about the need for a space for musical jam sessions."

What? I have to believe that isn't common and it's being used as a "see how lazy/unprofessional/undedicated _everyone_ in SV is"
Now we get everything is a huge, wasteful, cardboard box. My flatmate recently ordered sponges from Amazon. A fucking cardboard box for something that you could buy at Wal-Greens for the same price, and where hundreds of them are shipped per box.
Its interesting how most of the commentary here is about Amazon, not about being denied status under a public program for “having a violation of customs laws on your record” when not only were you never convicted or found civilly liable for any such violation, and not only were you never actually even charged with such a violation, but you also never had any notice or knowledge of a customs violation having occurred, and the actual violation was a hostile party attempting to defraud you.

Amazon is certainly at fault for the process which enable their platform to be used for fraud, but the core of this story is the government punishing people for offenses they not only didn't commit, but didn't know about and of which they were the intended victim.
Working more is almost never the solution. If you have to work from 8am until 10pm, you're just doing something wrong.

Does he himself work from 8am until 10pm?
Perhaps the distribution of fluent english speakers is more relevant.
C-Toy: interactive C99 coding environment based on TCC
I use and am very happy with Brunch. Yes, Webpack might have more features but my Brunch config is like 25 lines and it just works. It took me fifteen minutes to set up having struggled with Webpack for a couple of days.
Thats what the north/southbridge does, off-loading the CPU from all sorts of tasks (even if some of the tasks moved into the CPU die since the classic definition of north/southbridge was set)
Tourists is probably less of an issue for Manhattan than it would be a lot of places. Sure, there's the family of five from a nearby state that drives into the city for the weekend because the train costs add up for that many people. But, for most, trains, planes, or busses make a lot more sense given parking costs and the fact that driving into New York is pretty much a big pain. I've done it but not when I've had other reasonable options.
> The identity of those who help you achieve those goals doesn't matter as much (very few people care about the skin color of someone who saves their life).

This is not true. Color lines were reinforced in ww2. It didn't recede. Black soldiers were routinely attacked by white soldiers. And japanese american soldiers couldn't serve in the pacific for a variety of reasons ( including being killed by their fellow white american soldiers ) and in europe, japanese soldiers were essentially killed off by their own white commanders in suicide attacks. Feel free to look up the death rates of japanese american soldiers in europe. It's horrendous. Pretty much a war crime.

Race riots occurred between american white and black soldiers in australia, britain, etc. Feel free to google battle of bamber bridge or the battle of brisbane.

The civil rights movement happened because ww2 WORSENED race relations, not made it better. And with the advent of tremendous economic wealth, people were more willing to confront the race relations.

The civil rights movement was a result of more racism, not less and the wealthy post-ww2 country which provided the environment where people were willing to consider civil rights. You could argue that the post-ww2 economic prosperity had more to do with the civil rights movement than anything else.
True. You avoid being labelled a counterfeiter (or importer thereof).

But, you still run the risk of being shipped widgets that will [combust|impale|disintegrate|other calamity]
I was undecided until middle-click opened in current tab.

That's not what I asked for. Let my browser do its job.

Edit: And right-click behaves like left-click! Non-standard and annoying. So much for "Jakob's Law".
Perhaps I shouldn't have been snarky, but my point is that being able to buy a very limited amount of items in sparse areas throughout the world with Bitcoin is at odds with the idea that Bitcoin has value for people in countries with volatile, spiraling economies, which was the original point being made. I felt that was a substantive enough point to be made. But I apologize regardless.
I've seen a lot of anger about his comments on Twitter, but for me this just boils down to a structural issue: for him, a company is an item in a financial portfolio. For an employee, a job at a company means years of their life. Their incentives are not aligned (unless the worker is voluntarily putting in continuous 12-hr days for adequate compensation.)
The millions of people who do live in NYC thank you. The toll is working as expected.
In Britain, we rely more on guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). It does comparative reviews to make recommendations on the most suitable drugs to use.

Motivation is primarily to restrict crazy-expensive drugs to those situations where they're actually going to represent value for (the public's) money, but also to point clinicians towards new approaches which can improve the quality of treatment.

So hugely expensive advertising towards physicians is not the only way to do it.
Yes I agree, there are people with bad luck but I was not talking about those, I meant more in general. I am not saying one should not help, the topic was about work anyway, my point was simply that if people step back with their wants they'd have to work less. I just hear too often someone lament about how he/she has no money but then they have all kinds of luxury items... car, especially if someone lives in a big city, is nothing but a money burning machine and if they say "but I want one" well then they gotta pay for that with their time and nerves at work
What Coding Interviews and the Game Snake Have in Common?
A lot of the artefacts of a process are intended to help teams transition from the old way of doing things and to help teams who have stalled or failed to deliver. Sprints, as far as I understand them, were intended to get the wheels turning and to demonstrate results at regular intervals so the customers for any software development effort could see progress and gain confidence that the team was going to deliver. Once everything is up and running smoothly then it's entirely reasonable to drop all that and just focus on delivering - you don't need a lot of packaging an rituals to do that.
Exactly, do it or else he's going to take his ball and go home (or take his fund's money and go to China)

But don't tell him what happens if he ever tries to take his money OUT of China, we can let that be a "fun" learning experience for him.
See the link - it includes details about studies done on breast cancer for example where overtreatment is a real issue. This is not a hypothetical concern, but a concern that's significant enough that large scale screening programs have scaled back in some countries in response.
So they are violating the law of the "land", by literally going to different land.

This sounds a lot like corporate/beaurocratic cover-your-ass policy that is there so you don't get fired.

It just seems to me that someone like the CIA could torture in some basement in area-51 and they would still be untouchable.

In a weird way this kinda speaks a bit to the power of the constitution or the respect that it holds. Even if you are basically violating it.
On the other hand, someone can block certain your memories .. not much of a fun.
It's unbelievable. How can anyone justify spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a bridge or a tunnel just for car usage when many New Yorkers don't even own a car? That's tens of thousands of dollars per resident. I'm glad I don't live in NYC.
There is literally no argument given in this sprawling diatribe for who is going to provide for society.

Unless there is some new slave class that's going to do our work for us, your can't have productive society without someone working.

There are simply too many humans and not enough resources for everyone to homestead or farm, and even then, people have to work for themselves, and it would end up in more work.
$15 isn't indefensible if the project is solely or mostly funded with tolls (and therefore not out of state / city budget).

But as to toll (flat) vs tax (progressive), you're right: it's definitely screwing over the poor.

I'm all in favor of usage based charging, but "unaffordable to live near work on a moderate salary" + "we're going to tax your daily commute, the same as your boss" doesn't feel fair.
I was pointing out the existence of a governing body and a core team on FreeBSD, for which there is no analogue on Linux. There is no "the main Linux repository".
Amazon didn't handle any of the merchandise. It's Amazon Marketplace so it works like ebay, they just host the listing and process payments while the seller does all the shipment and the buyer is the one actually importing the counterfeit goods (this is what is illegal in the US). I don't think Amazon is the one at fault for the crime necessarily but they should be proactive in taking down counterfeit listings to prevent this. I've bought things on ebay before for what seemed like a fair price and it turned out to be counterfeit. I don't blame ebay for that but I wouldn't be happy if the same post was still up after I reported it for counterfeiting.
Honestly, retail or food services is probably more meaningful than the sort of "bullshit jobs" [1] that people are complaining about here.

[1]:https://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs
Providing users with fake data is never a good idea because it can be, and probably will be, used against you in the long run. Plus no sane evil scrapper uses default referrer and no masking so misfires are realistically possible within a thin line needed to detect them.

In any case, users can do whatever they want with their client and expect the service to work properly. If you detect abuse you should block or captcha them but the fact of them being a possible bot doesn't really call for such drastic measure. It's the second worst approach after serving hindering scripts to them.

Disclaimer: I haven't downvoted you as I don't downvote things prompting a discussion.