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That was what I was wondering as well, since savings accounts are such poor vehicles for saving these days in terms of a return I'm sure a lot of people just leave the money in their checking account.

That said, its really really important that if you can't save some money every month, and don't accumulate savings year over year (those are importantly different things!) That is a signal that you are living beyond your means, budget down and find ways to reduce your burn rate.
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Lets throw our own people under the bus and see what kind of juicy leaks come out!
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Indeed, much of the poor are poor because they have low IQs.
When one compares it to other crimes that not only go unpunished, but rewarded, this particular crime is comparatively insignificant - thus the "more or less".

I trust in the aftermath of the 2008 meltdown, you were speaking out equally vigourosly in favor of jailing bank executives.
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Especially when other price their registry as low margin business.
Reposting my comment to another commenter:

A 40 is not liquid - if something happens and you need money tomorrow yo don't have immediate access to those funds. There may also be heavy fees if you pull funds out before you are 60.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10351528 and marked it off-topic.
This is the situation I am in. I'm not savvy enough to make investments that have meaningful or significant returns - so it all goes into a savings account.

I have 1 years' expenses saved and it just slowly accumulates because I don't know how to make a safe return on it. I don't want to invest say, 3 months savings only to lose it...

Definitely the "play to not lose" mentality rather than a "play to win" mentality but I see little reason to change that behavior.
This is always Mozilla's excuse. It's not as if Google hasn't published their source code or their documentation:

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/c-api

It's not as if Google isn't willing to work with other browser vendors to translate this into a formal spec.

It's not as if you even need to have a formal spec for the plugin API! The previous standard, "NPAPI", is the Netscape Plugin API, which was informally specified for Netscape, and then adopted by other browser vendors.

How is that any different than PPAPI?
Refusing to comply with an NSA order will likely just end you up in jail on something else because the government has the power to lock you up.

That's the thesis of Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...), that:

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague....

He'll have a lot more examples, I'm sure.

So we can't hold the companies who complied with them entirely responsible, as those companies are made up of individuals who have families to think of.

Especially since the Feds have no compunctions against going after your family if they can't pin something on you. E.g. junk bond figure Michael Millikan, who's real crime was creating a market for poorly managed companies.
Good! Savings account is the worst place to keep money. Mine are in my 401k, investments, tied up in my home, or just sitting in checking ready to be used.

I really hate these "OMG USA IS THE WORST" articles. How we handle money in the US is different than some countries. American cash is often invested and/or invested in their retirement via the 401k system, as opposed to the pension system controlled by the government or a union.

There's probably a good discussion to have about spending, how poor young people are, college tuition, and retirement savings and such, but not with this data. Net worth is probably what people are looking for when having these kinds of conversations.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/26/the-average...
You are, as far as I know, entirely correct. I still think the survey was designed specifically to find these people who exist in this manner, and I think your criticisms are valid when placed against the thrust of the survey.
And, supposing this is true, would you actually be surprised by this? This is a car company, not a CI and code-review obsessed software company in Silicon Valley.
From what I know of the car industry, coding standards are very low. I don't think any car companies would look good if their code was audited by professional software engineers in other fields.
Interesting. Is it just me or it reminds the reader of Spring Initializr[1]

[1] https://start.spring.io/
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I've seen people use the Yellow Pages as a filter before. For example, a website doesn't take too long to get up these days with templates, but a two-page color ad in the yellow pages costs thousands of dollars. If you can afford the Yellow Pages ad, you're also likely insured, etc. I personally do not use them, and I recycle them when they're delivered.
I actually hope they will utilize elasticsearch and dyanmoDB one day. They already have integration b/w DDB and Titan, DDB and Kinesis, Kinesis and Elasticsearch, so it's just a matter of time and enough requests to see Elasticsearch & Kibana integrate with cloudwatch. I am not sure when they will have a "logstash" although that's already doable with cloudwatch log.
I wonder what the NTSB thinks about this. This is a clear safety issue.
If that's the case, the execs are even more at fault for not having proper controls in place to prevent rogue employees from jeopardizing the entire company.
He didn't "wish misfortune" on his former employer. He provided information instrumental to that misfortune. He's an accomplice, not a well-wisher.
In the US there is a legal distinction between savings accounts and checking accounts, which governs how many "convenient" transfers can be made to/from savings accounts, among other things. The question is specifically asking whether people have money in the legal "savings account" category, not whether they have savings in any random bank account.
From a 'tech culture' standpoint, if anything this is a reminder that there are many more computer programmers and companies (wealthy and profitable ones, even) who operate outside of Silicon Valley bubble and the 'tech industry.' Though it sounds like Mercer and Renaissance Technologies operate in the Wall Street bubble.

(Bubble meaning enclosed monocultural environment, not necessarily economic bubble.)
Why can't you use it with the screen reversed like [1]?

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I'm assuming the development process for embedded auto software like this would be pretty rigorous, meaning it would be fairly difficult to sneak in code like this.

I also assume that testing of emissions software like this would involve a lot of lab/road testing with the vehicles against the EPA test profile and therefore a lot of people would be involved. Suggesting this is the stealthy work of just a couple of software engineers is very hard to believe.

Can anyone who's worked on embedded software in the automotive environment comment?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352061

... did you just blame the ukrainian genocide under stalin on a lack of guns?
A shot to the hand or the leg will kill you far slower than a shot to the chest though, and will be much easier to patch up.
Yes, in cases where you don't claim your 5th Amendment privilege. In other western countries, no such privilege exists at all.
But, surely anyone with over, say, $10,000 in total savings/investments has at least $1,000 (10%) of it in some kind of cash account. Why on earth would one keep all of their assets in accounts that could lose value?
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Please read the mailing list thread I linked. It isn't a long thread.

The problem is not just that PPAPI is unspecified, although that is a problem. The problem is that the consensus is/was that PPAPI is the wrong approach entirely, because we already have the Web APIs. Inventing parallel APIs instead of providing a way for native code to call Web APIs just adds a lot of complexity to the platform for no reason.

> It's not as if you even need to have a formal spec for the plugin API! The previous standard, "NPAPI", is the Netscape Plugin API, which was informally specified for Netscape, and then adopted by other browser vendors.

Nobody's happy with NPAPI. That's why it's being dropped. "Just as good as NPAPI" is not the bar we want to meet in 2015.
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Hyperbole much ?

When a soldier is ordered to torture - its clearly wrong to do so. Its a question of human ethic.

Is it the responsibility of the software engineer to know the exact level of NO_2 0.001 or 0002 that he should be coded into their product ?

Also a software engineer doesn't exist in a vacuum. There is a whole testing regime. Why should the coder be solely responsible ?
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Even if this is true, and I doubt that it is, it's not really that important. The real question is why people in positions of responsibility didn't prevent it from happening.
Aside, that's not true, in many jurisdictions. US tax authorities chase down and collect money from biodiesel users who don't pay the fueltax.
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Yes I'm living the dream of 90% test coverage! ... Well I used this project as an excuse to write testable C code, so that's why.
>when it comes to accidental deaths

Accidental gun deaths are not remotely interesting compared to murder and suicide.
Yes, they can. Most engineers (in the US) have to take an ethics course that covers this. Just because your boss says do something, doesn't give you a pass.
Docker files are still insufficient for building anything but trivial bloated stacks using any docker registry build service, forcing you to setup a CI pipeline to build and push your containers to your registry. They froze the syntax and this mountain of trouble is just getting worse.

Then they modernised the UI and its just like ... Terrible. I have no more words for how much of a step backwards the latest UI is compared to the original one.
It's crazy. Amazon's container registry only charges you for the storage, which means they've got something like ELBs tuned for this, so they don't care about the instance time on their side. They're only charging you for what you're storing in S3 (although at 10 cents/GB, it _is_ more expensive then straight S3, but still extremely reasonable for not needing to manage your own registry).
Tight regulation of legal gun ownership and possession does not appear to lead to reduced gun-related deaths, (based on a comparison between state Brady Campaign score and gun deaths,) except perhaps suicide, though this is debated .[1] What you worry about is of little import to anyone but yourself (,for example, I am scared of getting hit in the head by coconuts, which are 10 times more deadly than sharks!), if you have a fact-based concern, we may be able to address it.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Well, that's depressing.

Almost hard to believe, to be completely honest -- but I might just be around the right group of people?
> They already admit that the right isn't unlimited.

This is key. The NRA screams that any attempt to regulate any aspect of guns is unconstitutional, but that's clearly not the case.

Said screaming has, unfortunately, been very politically effective.
This is probably a little reactionary, but can we just stop for a second and admire the difference in American CEO's versus his European counterpart? The latter resigns immediately as a way of accepting he is ultimately responsible, the former points fingers. This is a blatant example of why the tide of opinion is turning against those with the most wealth.
"Trivially" should be reserved for conclusions that follow directly from a simple transformation of an axiom or proved theorem.
Founder here, we mix our technology with human intervention to have 100% recognition rate.

Other pure OCR options has a cost of cognitive load and context switching to correct exceptions, so we chose a robots-and-humans aspect :)
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So what do we do about this? Should we have a society where people are working full-time and living paycheck-to-paycheck? Is that a fair and equitable thing?

After we fix our government corruption in this country, we should look towards more socialism - I'd rather live in a society that houses homeless children, cares for its disabled, helps its sick, and empowers its poor, then one that doesn't - and I think most people share my view.
Thank you for that take on it. As a 30 something, I've been "coached" over time that savings is for liquidity in the case of an unexpected event - loss of job for X months (cover bills with savings), medical emergency (cover bills with savings), or potential family development (need to purchase vehice for teenager). These events are not supposed to be covered by "dipping" into retirement funds, e.g. IRA or 401k.

The ideal method of financial planning I was taught is to invest for retirement through financial products which minimize risk and are not liquid assets, while concurrently saving in a "traditional" account.
As others have pointed out, the article is stupid because it asks a misleading question.

So, instead of discussing that, I'd like to ask: roughly what savings do HN readers have?

How much should I be saving at the minute? What should I be saving it in?

I'm a PhD student in my early 20s, living in London, and I only have about ~£500 in savings. I'm trying to save £1000-£2000 per year. At the minute, I just keep my savings in a separate current account to my main account -- which also has higher interest (3%).
I dont keep any money in my Savings account. The interest rate is rubbish. I just invest it someplace better.
>Accidental gun deaths are not remotely interesting compared to murder and suicide.

I was responding to a comment regarding accidental deaths and injuries, not suicide or murder. If this is insufficiently interesting to you, I suggest you read another comment.
That is a bit surprising. When pursuing my CS PhD the breakdown felt closer to 60/40 non-US vs. US citizens. US born citizens were certainly outnumbered, but not to the degree that you observed. This was in NYC, however, the breakdown could vary geographically, perhaps?
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At the same time, they're people that are coming in and pushing people who have lived there out, simply because they have more money. That would piss most people off.
Haha, hey, good to hear from you!

My take is that people are doing it piecemeal. The datacenter guys got a mandate to make everything cloudy because of the obvious benefits (scale, provisioning time, lower TCO), but the data / application teams had already invested in something like HANA. If you can just forklift everything up to the cloud, there's at least the theory that you can start to peel off bits as they need to and integrate further with Amazon. If you're starting a streaming ingest process, it's appealing to forklift your existing batch ingest, then use Amazon's services to build the new one. Similar with DB upgrades (RDS), backups (S3 / glacier), or anything else that has a dedicated service. But the first thing to do is get the core application running so you're not trying to patch around some unholy hybrid cloud mess.
Except that has no UI. (At least last time I checked)
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Curious, not criticizing: What is your plan if you get sick or laid off, or for some other reason need a large amount of cash immediately? I always thought it was common advice to keep ~6mo living expenses in cash savings for emergencies.
Would be useful if there were more examples of what to search for on the landing page. I'm stumped for ideas of what to enter. I saw there was one example in the textbox but I need more for context.
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That is the argument about the CFAA -- that the law should be revised to rein in the government's crazy abuse of it.

I absolutely agree the law should be revised. The only problem is trying to set a decent spectrum of punishments that have clear delineation points. This is the main reason I feel it hasn't been revised. The law is broad in its application, and the feds can argue that judges still have the ability to hand down more lenient sentences where they feel its applicable.

I do agree because of its broad and vague terminology, the feds have used it to go after a wide range of offenses. Sometimes merited, but I fell in this case, not so much.
Bullets fly in both directions, but I wouldn't acquit the police so easily:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Serpico
I don't actually disagree that it is a wonder Capitol Hill was unchanged for so long, but that doesn't mean we can't bemoan the fact that that era has largely ended.

I know that in general this is a trite topic and your quote about "no more development" is a valid one, but so is the opposite.

There's another funny quote, apparently from Yogi Berra, which is roughly: "Oh that restaurant, nobody goes there anymore, it is too crowded." And I think that kind of touches on the same thing.

Some people picked Seattle / Capitol Hill for the characteristics it had (apart from proximity to downtown), and it is only natural for us to bemoan that it isn't that anymore. Maybe that is just a fundamental truth, that with growth you will lose some "flavor", but perhaps it is also worth trying to see if city planning can help a city grow so that it doesn't.

That's the point. Of course things change, but maybe appropriate planning and policies can make it so that we don't lose what was so great about these neighborhoods in the first place.
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Agreed. However I do feel that the European CEO got off easy by simply being able to walk away.
The enforcement in other western countries is limited to not selling them as easily, tons of people still have unregistered guns and illegally importing them isn't difficult.
I totally agree, the Surface should give them a run for their money. Whilst the XPS was by far the best Windows laptop I've ever had (fast boot up, fast etc. Good graphics support) It still had some flaky aspects. Sleep resume was erratic and the wireless adaptor power saving didn't know what to do sometimes - so I did have to reboot to fix some problems. It also had a monitor colour temperature issue - sometimes it couldn't work out what the correct setting was, or their was a problem with the firmware, I dunno, but I used to get subtle magenta then green then magenta casts on the screen. It wasn't bad enough to worry about, but still not good.
Aaaand It borked one time, so I had to restore from backup.
I've never have to do anything on my 3 year old MBP.
IB XML is nothing like Android XML - they're world apart in readability. Trying to edit the IB XML directly is almost impossible -- I've tried.

Honestly the best part of new tools like React Native is how it let's you get away from IB without the huge hassle of trying to declare your whole interface directly in objc/swift.
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So 38% of Americans are have more than $1000 sitting around becoming less valuable everyday? That may be a more interesting conversation to have.
My partner's family lives in government subsidized housing and they get the full array of benefits including disability and food stamps. His mother buys new luxury items like purses from Coach regularly with cash from under the table jobs. They have more TVs, newer smartphones and iPads and lots of other expensive goods, and yet they have zero savings. I don't understand the thinking there.

I just hope their retirement plan isn't to live with my partner and I.
If the stock market falls by even just 80%, which is probably the minimum I'd call "wiped out" then things are bad enough that your savings account can't be trusted either.
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> in a broad-sweeping financial collapse, then "cash in savings" would be equally worthless.

> how would "cash in savings" be equally worthless? Maybe I'm not understanding, but it's pretty difficult to actually lose money in a savings account, that's the whole point.

The cash wouldn't be lost, but it would have reduced purchasing power in a recession. And if inflation is steep, you're actively "losing" money.

It would be "worthless" in the context of long-term investing, because nothing would have long-term worth.
>There's something to be said for having cash available - here and there, opportunities pop up for me that I can take advantage of.

But, by definition, every time you take advantage of an opportunity, you sacrifice cash on hand. You can't always have cash on hand and always be able to take advantage of opportunities, unless you have infinite money. They are opposing forces; your money is either "in cash" or "in opportunities".

It reminds me of arguments to have "dry powder" to buy equities when there is a market correction. But that means you're sacrificing current returns for potential future returns, and unless you can anticipate the future market results, the results of the strategy are ambiguous.
Does anyone have any knowledge of how this compares to Azure's offering? I have used Azure Event Hubs for a pretty simple task, and liked it. Curious if AWS IoT has anything Azure doesn't.
I'm in this exact same situation. I have very little trust in my knowledge of any other form of investing. Would much rather take the safe route.