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> We will maintain python2, python3 and python@3 aliases.

Is the python3 alias likely to be present indefinitely?

I work with beginners a lot, so I look for a simple installation with as few steps as possible. I like that someone who hasn't set up their mac for development can run 'brew install python3', and then use the python3 command to work with the latest version. They don't have to modify their PATH to get started, and as long as they use python3 to run programs and configure a text editor, they don't have to think much about the difference between their Python 3 installation and the system Python.

I understand that 'brew install python' will now install Python 3, which is great. But that does mean you have to modify your PATH to have the python command use the homebrew-installed Python 3 interpreter, right?

Is it reasonable to continue to recommend that beginners use the 'brew install python3' command?
Is that actually what scrum suggests sprints are? Thanks, I missed that, that's silly if so. I assumed by the name that this was like a one week a month kind of thing.
The only issue is when I had to run to Manhattan I jumped in my car and went either into a parking lot or just dropped something off. Still get charged for the Bridge Fees of $15!!!

$15 to use the GWB and anything going to Long Island or NJ is ridiculous and Verrizano is $17 and that is the the highest cost for a bridge in the nation. GWB is a major interstate and you have to swing up to the Tapanzee or go further north Fishkill Bridge to get lower fees.

Now add the $11 fee and my cost is $26 just to drive to one place in Manhattan.
I think I've also heard plans for congestion pricing on express lanes on 285 (not sure of the extent of those - I want to say between 75 and 85 on the north side?)
If anything it should make you feel the opposite. The brain is an extremely effective optimizer that solves these problems in a way that is opaque to us. We find it very difficult to solve them.

An AI is an "unlocked" brain. It can see all the things that it does and then see how it does them. If it learns to ride a bike -and if it's a humanlike AI, it will be able to- it'll be able to see exactly what it does and build a model from that. We would be able to do the exact same except we can't see inside our own brains and we have to study slow motion video and notice every little thing. The AI just sees oh, I turn the other direction slightly before initiating a turn. Voila, countersteering is discovered.
I don't know, some studios seem to have found a formula for consistently producing above average games. Look at From, Bethesda (the developers not the publishers) or Valve. I think it may have a lot to do with giving a medium sized team a long time, rather than a long one a short time.
The geometry is set up to be stable at a higher speed. Even then some sports bikes require a steering dampener to prevent "speed wobbles" (which, yes, are an actual thing and are much worse at 260kph than at 30kph on your BMX when you're a kid.)
What do you mean by "business climate" here? I would assume that finding and retaining employees is a core component of any business, and if that's not happening, then the climate isn't all that good.
What an amazing initiative — not least because they're providing something consumable for offline.

Does anyone have any knowledge on the quality of this material? I'd love to dive into quite a few of them where I have surface-knowledge...
A gif of what happens when one step is just slightly too high:

https://imgur.com/hl3YWJD
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If New York was hurting for tourists and customers, they'd lower the toll. The defense for what people are calling "indefensible" is that enough people pay the toll that traffic is still a nightmare. If it was indefensible, no one would pay it.
1000x yes. People love to be productive. There will always be things to do and people willing to exchange money for time to do those things.
Have any good resources on your team's kanban system?
Fitts law.
> there is no analogue on Linux. There is no "the main Linux repository".

Of course there is. Linus decides what goes into the mainline kernel, his repository is literally called "Linux kernel source tree"[0], with the stable "archive" being sensibly called "Linux kernel stable tree"[1], and Linux's analogue to the freebsd core team is de-facto Linus and his trusted maintainers, the people from whom he reviews and pulls commits.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
Supermarkets under pressure to reveal amount of plastic they create
How is Amazon guilty of anything here? This seems entirely the work of our gov't, not Amazon. The headline makes good clickbait by including Amazon but the frustration should be with the gov't for implementing an arbitrary and opaque restriction on citizen travel.
Is that too high? Then kindly don't drive in Manhattan.
Those hospital systems are non-profit. Not that there aren't ways to spend new revenue on buildings and equipment, but at least there's less profit motive.
This could use some explanation on the "from Stack Overflow" bit. How is GoalKicker related to SO?
I agree the costs are high. That is largely a result of the high cost of living. There's additional economically literate funding methods which account for that.

For instance, when infrastructure is built, it causes surrounding land values and rents to rise. It is possible to use that rising value to pay for the infrastructure, via a special assessment.

There is also an issue where the people with the worst infrastructure would be paying the most under congestion pricing, which means that it would be important to prioritize improvements to the most congested areas.
We ended the toll on 400 because it reduced the throughput of the highway, and we're all paying through our taxes anyway.
Those tunnels are also used by buses and taxis, aren't they?
Your depiction of Trump as unstable is exactly this cultural bias I'm referring to. He doesn't exhibit the upper class white culture behaviors you're willing to accept in a president, so he seems unstable.

It's worth mentioning that while he's always been rich, Trump spent a significant portion of his youth around construction sites, so he has adopted a lot of low class blue collar behavior.
Same here. Just pick the next item from the backlog and do what needs to be done. It's much easier.
If you're really just looking to have fun and learn, $60 is nothing. You can burn through that at Dave & Busters in 15 minutes playing games. They also say it's the "fastest Arduino-Compatible dev kit" but I don't know enough about the space to know how accurate that is.
Chinese culture is pretty different from ours (from what I read). I’m not sure one can pin longer work hours on work ethic alone.

As I understand it, China has a gender imbalance and there are not enough women. Men therefore must be successful to find a wife. This could help explain some of the difference in work ethic, as one of the primary human motivations is to reproduce.
remember, hacker will always find the backdoors first if we open source!
Can you be specific about what you mean about the business climate being better? Is it taxation? The cost of land and workers? It seems that if talent is unavailable that is not just "the only problem" but an actual blocker.
NYC isn't exactly hurting in terms of the number of people there or foot traffic.
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$15 is indefensible. Why is the answer "screw the poor"?

Why screw the middle class? Is paying 15$ every time you drive somewhere sustainable for you? If it is, then your not middle class - your rich
On linux, just use the mingw c/c++ compiler and run/debug under wine. When it's time to run under windows, I compile under cygwin's mingw, and that usually just works.

I'll edit later today when I get a chance and post my makefiles / compiler opts to github.
SoftBank tells Uber to focus on US and Europe as deal closes
As I understand it, public transport is a viable (toll-free) alternative for (less-affluent) locals. Such that this toll primarily targets the more affluent class and tourists. Given there are limits to capacity for tourists, driving up costs increases revenue per unit of capacity and as it's limited, that's probably a good choice. Not dissimilar to raising prices if you're selling 100% of your production/inventory.

It's probably a pretty good deal for the average new yorker.
I'm not talking about CLI tools. I'm talking about Python libraries, like Pandas and Numpy.
You don't understand. This is a list of people who have ownership over some part of Linux:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/MAINTAINERS

Linus might have the "final say" but all of the work and knowledge is encapsulated in these people and they are generally given the autonomy to organize and maintain their subsystems as they see fit. As for Linus's tree, it's probably the most Linux Linux that's out there, but it's hardly the only one. Hardly anyone actually runs Linux from Linus's tree. Most distros maintain their own trees with their own patchsets.
My point (as a UXer) is that up to around 7 years ago we were generally known as practitioners in the field.of usability / user interface design / etc.

The people in the field of Human factors and ergonomics pretty much still have those titles.

There is a lot of overlap but my point is UXers were known as Usability folks on the whole
> They could get by fine on a normal toll amount. $15 is indefensible.

Who's to say $15 isn't a normal toll amount? As far as I know the bridge is quite busy which means it seems very defensible. They discount it for electronically billed tolls (which makes it faster for everybody) and discount it again for carpoolers (less cars, again faster for everybody). The $15 is the amount you pay if you're having the most impact.
This point now referenced in the article.
From the bottom of http://books.goalkicker.com/DotNETFrameworkBook/ :

"The .NET Framework Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. See credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified

Book created for educational purposes and is not affiliated with .NET Framework group(s), company(s) nor Stack Overflow. All trademarks belong to their respective company owners"
I have done it and it works great if you respect the work and each other. It's a nightmare with people who don't care.
Why couldn't you take a train instead? That area is one of the only places in the US where public transportation is good enough to make that feasible.
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I guess a follow-up question is if there are laws against rendition. Is this just a legal loop hole for torture?
That's what the exploiter would like you to think: it's what you chose, and if something's not right, it's all your own fault, so try harder? This is how pimps have always manipulated their prey, for instance.
How about gender distribution in positions of power? Yes there are lots of actresses, but how many women directors, producers, or studio executives are there? Not many.
For fans of extreme detail, I'd recommend The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker[0]. Iirc, he devoted several pages to the feeling of the curls of a brown paper bag carried in his hand.

0: https://www.amazon.com/Mezzanine-Nicholson-Baker/dp/08021449...
I feel like attempting to compare modern quality of life to 19th century farmers is a fool's errand. Maybe we're working through the winter, but, as a whole it's very unlikely to kill us so I'm inclined to take that trade.
It's commonly quoted (probably inaccurately) that Einstein never bothered remembering his home phone number because it could easily be looked up in a phone book. The brain very regularly expands outside itself to think or remember, almost like subcontracting.

Smartphones have just made them a one-stop shop for all our external thinking now.
Seems to be unrelated. GoalKicker is transforming SO data and publishing it under the same Creative Commons BY-SA licence. From the footer of one of the books:

The .NET Framework Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. See credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified

Book created for educational purposes and is not affiliated with .NET Framework group(s), company(s) nor Stack Overflow. All trademarks belong to their respective company owners

192 pages, published on January 2018
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Funding it with a progressive tax makes more sense to me than charging everyone the same flat rate.
Complaining about Silicon Valley political correctness while extolling the virtues of China is at best tone deaf. It’s pretty much impossible for anyone who has any experience with Asia to deny that racism is just more socially acceptable over there than in the US. And things like homosexuality are suppressed. For example, China recently banned depictions of homosexuality on TV.

So of course it’s easier to say certain things over there than it is over here. That’s the difference between a society where tensions are high because we’re actively trying to work through the challenges faced by our minority groups, and one where there are no tensions because the concerns of minority groups are completely suppressed.

It’s also myopic to mistake forced social harmony for principled open mindedness. My extended family is from a South Asian country, and let’s face it—people say things that could, among Americans, get them in trouble. That’s not out of open mindedness. Try bringing up a cousin possibly being gay and see how open minded everyone is.
Beat me to it :)
Why free? It seems like a lot of labor went into making these books.
NASA is testing tiny nuclear reactors that can sustain life on Mars
How would you do it then? Publish as soon as it's discovered, and let everyone scramble for fixes as its being exploited?
Vulkan is only available on Win32, Linux and Android though. The reality is that there is no standard low-level 3D-API. I don't see this as a problem though, the complexity of Vulkan shows that it is very hard to create a one-size-fits-all 3D API, competition is good and Metal shows that it is possible to create a balanced 3D-API which combines modern features with ease of use.
Password for the Hawaii emergency agency was in a public photo on a Post-it note
I don't think regular driving schools teach you to countersteer when you turn.
> If you attempted to establish a private security mailing list, ...

Like the linux-distros [0] list? Or just the kernel developers?

(Note that both Linus and Greg are on this list.)

[0]: http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros
Fighting polio with financial engineering
Exactly right. The constitution declares that due process is a right, and in my (IANAL) mind, this is a violation: "you can't travel because you bought an off-brand bag" (a trademark issue!). The reality is that the real harm to this individual is small, and the normal individual has an outsized cost to fight this injustice.

The unfortunate consequence: more erosion of rights at the margin. Not to be hyperbolic, but it really is just one more microstep along the slope toward fascism.

We laugh at them when online videos surface, but the people who are willing to inconvenience themselves in order to peacefully oppose these kinds of actions are everyday heroes.
The probability is assuming all are equally likely, which turned out to be wrong. So the 365*10 number should be around right.
> Is what `end-users should care about` any business of yours?

I only wish more software held a laser focus on what end users wanted, and thought about their needs as a top priority when evaluating proposals.

Brew is a really awesome piece of software to use, and it's that way because the authors are clearly constantly thinking about their users when they make decisions.
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Yes, once the patches are generated, they get submitted just like any other kernel change, sent to the responsible subsystem and maintainer for inclusion like any other kernel change.
Mostly this seems to work so well on HN is because moderators are excellent at keeping politically loaded discussions under control. They are the poison for every community.
Hand gestures are not "entirely controlled", I mean you might want to cough, sneeze or yawn and put automatically the hand before your mouth, or you might be wanting to swat/chase a fly or mosquito away.

If you are hand gesture controlling - say - a browser or a painting app, at the most you use undo or back, but what happens with the quadcopter?
I haven't compared the text to see how much editing was involved here, but based on the credits line in the books this appears to be the abandoned StackOverflow Documentation beta in PDF form?

https://stackoverflow.com/documentation
That’s the difference between a society where tensions are high because we’re actively trying to work through the challenges faced by our minority groups, and one where there are no tensions because the concerns of minority groups are completely suppressed.

Very well put!
> "Now, it looks like even Silicon Valley's biggest boosters — venture capitalists — are losing patience."

When I lost patience, I just wrote about it to get it out of my system. I disagree with all the rules/stuff you can't do according to code of conducts we have at workplaces or conferences, but the reactions were neutral/it was not really received at all -- here is my text: "Why anti-harassment policies fail. Grok Trump’s tweets to learn how to fix them" https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/anti-harassment-rules-dont-...
Never heard about this before, thanks for above link. Good link on Kosmos 954 recovery operation here: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/operation-morning-light-...
Your argument here being that a mysterious group of old-school TCSEC people understood microarchitectural side channel attacks years ago, so much so that we could have eliminated them in the 1990s, but chose to say nothing about them --- until now.

My rebuttal would be that if these people had discovered cache timing attacks (and not covert channel issues that weren't directly relevant to the x86 server threat model, but are six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon away from cache timing), they would have discovered cache timing attacks. It's a little like those people who keep saying that if we only had length-delimited strings instead of ASCIIZ, we'd have no memory corruption.
Tectonic activety I suspect.
Unless corporations have the right to coerce you (which only government can grant them), they have no power over you.

Walmart is one of the largest corporations around and they have no power over me. I can voluntarily work or shop there, but they can’t force me to do it.
I love Global Entry, but the mysterious and varied ways you can be denied for the mildest of issues is really frustrating.
I often work from 8am until 10am.
I think this is where the problems becomes apparent. The change then has to go through the subsystem's patch flow (in public) then into the merge window (in public) and sit in the release pipeline (in public) until the window closes and all of the rc's are through.

Personally I don't think this is a huge deal, but it's where the disconnect between the security person's ideal worldview and the reality of how Linux is built colllide.
The other poster is exactly right, the type of emergency life or death situation you're describing is a very small percentage of medical care, even within hospitals.
I thought I heard '4,000 servers' at one point
> Literally 99% of white, male, nerds don't fit this description. Every day in Silicon Valley people show favoritism to individuals that, for purely economic reasons, got into Stanford or Harvard.

Yeah, I was going to say that, in my experience, Stanford/Harvard graduate types are probably disproportionately favored in SV.
US oil output is booming and seen outpacing Saudis, Russia
Cool.. could you make it so command+click deletes the cell?
I used to use Amazon for second hand books, and then I noticed some sellers were not accurate in their description ("like new" had food stuck in the pages). Amazon was great at refunds, but I'd prefer to avoid the need to refund things. I noticed I was buying all my books from Wordery via Amazon, so I just went direct to Wordery.
The thing that bothers me, about the retail space at least, is the increasing amount of waste and the increasing amount of consumerism.

Many people buy PC components from Newegg or household goods from Amazon when they might be an entire $5 more at a retail store. The retails store version you can actually see and touch (more important for a bathmat, less important for a video card) and they're shipping in packages of 100 or 500. Stores typically do recycle all their cardboard.

You buy it on-line, and it comes in a box. And those boxes add up, and many of them don't get reused or recycled depending on what part of the world you live in.

Amazon pushes people to buy more through their ecosystem. We're buying more stuff we don't need than ever, and generating more waste than ever. Their dash button felt like the ultimate consumption waste tool. Amazon is pushing us into a world where we are continually buying.

I'd rather we live in a world where we buy more are, fewer goods (with what we do buy being more expensive but durable). What a great world if our cellphones and devices lasted 8 years instead of 2. A world where we could buy independent games and media and know the creators got a full 85%~90% like with Bandcamp instead of the current bullshit 66% they get from Apple/Google/Amazon/Steam/Gog.

A world where we spend less on goods and the goods last longer; a world that lets us spend more on art, could greatly reduce our overall pollution (not just the symbolic and useless measure of carbon) and could help create a more Army of Davids type world where people can legitimately live off their art.
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Same in Quebec. I believe other provinces in Canada have similar policies.

$ 0.05 on all non-refillable single-fill containers that are 450 ml or less in size

$ 0.10 on all single-fill and glass containers up to 450 ml size

$ 0.20 on all single-fill containers larger than 450 ml

$ 0.05 for each soft drink container sold
True story: my partner's department can't just sort denies by highest cost because they literally do not know how much the procedure actually costs and nobody in billing/finance can tell them either.

She came home one day feeling pretty good about overturning a $180k denial. She checked back a few weeks later, and found the paid in full amount to be in the neighborhood of $10k after "negotiated discounts."

The system is fucked. Had the denial gone through, that person would have been on the hook for the full 180k. (Or, to be more accurate, the hospital would have negotiated for $10k from the patient and written the remaining 170k off of their taxes)
Here's a quicker, less dry article about it: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/04/yasha-levine-recover...
Tether now prints $100M daily since January 16
Why do we still use pennies in commerce?
Not true. Ubuntu packported the kernel patches. 16.04 should be updated automatically as long as you've restarted your server
I’m familiar with some of the artifacts of a kanban style system - do you have any documentation of what your particular kanban process looks like (that you can share)?
I assume you mean 10pm? In my experience, after ~6 or 7h coding, my focus starts to move elsewhere, I make more errors and start reacting more irritaded than usual.
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