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Feels misnamed, brought back thoughts of flash intros in 2002. Should be renamed to something like grandtour.js
If anyone wants to read another stream of conciousness post -- mine devolves into shambles about my poor typing skills (a measly 48 wpm and trying not to hit backspace) and constant re-evaluation.
http://pastebin.com/vdkupSdy
You would always consider banning humans from an activity if it was overly dangerous compared to having a machine perform the operation.

40K people a year die in the US from vehicle accidents. Why would you not ban humans from driving if machines were objectively superior? Where do you find the "right" to drive to be? Driving is a privilege granted by the government, not a right.
> Unless I'm reading the report wrong, it appears that the bus did have the right of way.

Yeah, I was more trying to make an observation about general behavior of buses. When I read the article there was no mention of fault or reference to a report, so I didn't know. But I do know that buses disregarding right of way is fairly common. "With regard to this instance" was probably too strong/literal of a phrase to use to tie-in my observation.
Compensation for developers will drop over the long term, especially at the junior level.

Compensation will come in line with the comp received by other professions which require similar levels of IQ. The comp for those other professions is likely to go up as well. Over time compensation for people of roughly equivalent intelligence will reach a dynamic equilibrium.
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It seems like we have some fully remote startups (Buffer) and SMBs (Basecamp) that embrace this culture.

But I think the problem is that you're being contacted by recruiters in the bay at big tech cos. The small cos. might not have a recruiter, and the big cos. grew big without a remote-first culture.
Look then at human languages - two of the giants are English and Spanish. Both pretty simple. Definitely they both are the most spoken as second language. They would not have that position if it was not for their simplicity, compared to other languages.

Mandarin is an outlier in that comparison - but also not popular as a second language.
In other words, introduce a much, much longer iteration delay that makes the entire effort pointless, while risking destroying the device and all data on it by desoldering the (presumably BGA) NAND?
An even number of justices does not necessarily mean a deadlocked Supreme Court. Most cases are not decided 5-4 (though it may be true that the most controversial cases are more likely to be decided that way).
520m-year-old nervous system among oldest and most detailed ever found
Accusations of shillage without evidence are not allowed here.

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> "As a user, I want to download an application from the original author, and run it on my Linux desktop system just like I would do with a Windows or Mac application."

Has anyone ever said such a thing? My guess would be the exact opposite: users like the comfort of installing via the OS package manager, rather than hunting for binaries on the internet.
"correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there' "[1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/552/
Unless I'm mistaken, even if your exercise price is low, you may still owe a crapton (technical term) in taxes if the company has a high enough valuation.
While some of the effects are smooth, the scrolling is jumpy and unexpected.
Sending requests by mail with official looking letterheads for example.
And to complete the thought: the main reason why human pilots are still on all those aircraft is because... the automated/computerized systems still can't really make decisions that match what the humans can do. So the computer is really great at maintaining heading, altitude and speed for a set period of time, but really bad at deciding which heading, which altitude and which speed, and for how long (the best you can do that I'm aware of is have a human lay out the desired route and punch that into the FMC, and then all bets are off if conditions change along the way, and the humans will have to decide what to tell the plane to do again).
Or maybe Scalia just asked all the right questions, that Clarence already had.
If UnluckySmallCo. had created a phone that was used by defendants in nine separate cases, they probably would be big enough to handle it.
I just couldn't believe this story, especially after having read the exact same attack a week back on http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/02/phishers-spoof-ceo-reques... !!!!!
Yes, it does matter.

If the stock has appreciated in value, your exercise price may be low but your AMT bill may be high even if you have no liquidity at all. In my case I paid more in AMT than I did to exercise all my shares, though both individually were large and incredibly risky investments.

I could afford the risk and it did eventually work out for me, but some people can't afford the risk or frankly don't want to deal with the incredible complication of doing it. Just trying to figure out what your AMT bill might be involves doing your entire tax return based on projections, which depending on what time of year you are leaving could introduce quite a bit of inaccuracy and guesswork.

If you have an extended exercise window you just don't have to worry about it. If you want to take the risk of early exercise to get better tax treatment, do it. But if you don't (which I suspect will be the majority of people), all of the complication goes away completely... just sit on your options and exercise-and-sell when/if you get a chance at liquidity.
And

"It is wholly implausible to suppose that with so many of the newly-adopted Constitution's drafters and ratifiers in the legislature, the First Congress would so thoroughly trample on that document's very first substantive mandate: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States[.]" U.S. Const. Art. I, § 1. And yet that is precisely the reading the government proposes when it insists that a court may empower the executive to exercise power that the legislature has considered yet declined to allow.

It is a reading that thoroughly undermines both the legislature's own prerogative to reject a legislative proposal effectively and efficiently (without the need to affirmatively ban the proposed authority) and the more general protection against tyranny that the Founders believed required the careful separation of governmental powers."

--

As the power that the legislature "considered yet declined to allow" the judge refers to the existing law, CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act):

--

"it is arguable that CALEA explicitly absolves a company like Apple of any responsibility to provide the assistance the government seeks here and also" "even if CALEA does not have such an explicit prohibition, it is part of a larger legislative scheme that is so comprehensive as to imply a prohibition against imposing requirements on private entities such as Apple that the statute does not affirmatively prescribe."

--

Another side, according to Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-deny-idUS...

"The Justice Department is "disappointed" in Orenstein's ruling and plans to ask a higher judge within the same federal district to review the matter in coming days, a department representative said."
Related recent report by Brian Krebs:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/02/phishers-spoof-ceo-reque...
Last Friday's weather in Mountain View wasn't very stormy IIRC
What does the NSA/CIA/FBI/DHS, the Pentagon, Senate, and House of representatives want? Do they want all coverage regarding any and all topics listed above be vetted before release? Would this include editorials as well or discussions on the radio and Podcasts?

Since we "quasi lost" the 4th amendment with the Patriot Act (almost lost habeas corpus too) can we at least keep the first?
Well, according to the article 3/5 of foreign buyers paid cash, 1/3 of domestic buyers paid cash, and 1/5 of all buyers are foreign cash-only buyers.

1/5 (all buyers) = 3/5 (foreign buyers)

So one in three buyers is foreign. Which means two in three buyers are domestic, which means two in nine buyers is a domestic buyer who pays cash. So that puts the number of cash-only domestic buyers higher than foreign investors. That means that it's roughly the same absolute number of domestic cash-only and foreign cash-only (allowing some fuzziness in the numbers), not quite mostly foreign cash-only.

We can safely then conclude that the article linked does not support the claim that the people bidding cash are mostly foreign.
It's called a cashless exercise. You exercise and sell the stock right away so you don't need to have the money to buy.

However the problem is most startups in this case are not liquid so you cannot sell your shares (with some exceptions). Google and other public companies give you direct shares via RSUs since they can sell part of your shares to cover the taxes.
Precisely - from where I'm sitting, the disregard for standard forensic examination procedures [0] shown by the reset of the iCloud password proves that their actual desire to obtain the data is not in proportion to their assertion that Apple gives in to their demand.

Additionally, had they brought the device to a known access point and plugged it in to a charger, they could have availed themselves of another handy thing: Access to a computer synchronized with iCloud would've yielded an iCloud-specific token that could be used to download and extract the backup (without Apple's involvement), bypassing even TFA. [1]

[0]: http://www.nij.gov/publications/Pages/publication-detail.asp...

[1]: https://www.elcomsoft.com/eppb.html
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Fair point, and one that I had not considered at all. Thank you for pointing that out.
Disney IT Worker Forced to Retrain Foreign Hires: ‘It Was Torture’
The New York case this ruling came out of is one of them.

This list has all of the ones Apple listed in a filling in this New York case: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/02/23/in-new-court-filin...
That sounds time consuming. 5,040 possible pins with the 4x length pin and 151,200 possible pins with the 6x length pin.
You can remodel: If you really like cooking, for example, you can rearrange your kitchen how you want, buy appliances, etc. If you are really into woodworking you could convert the garage.

You get stability: Don't need to worry that the rent will go up or that the landlord will sell and stop renting to you.

Additionally, in many markets, certain kinds of housing are for all intents and purposes buy-only. Nobody is renting out a house with a yard in a good school district that you want to be in, for example.
Parts of Williamsburg and DUMBO are more expensive than their counterparts across the river.
> POP is somewhat broken for the most important use case for the client: syncing to server changes.

That's why we've had IMAP for a couple of decades now (and available anywhere for over a decade). POP simply wasn't designed for this use case.
You wouldn't solder the chip in every time, you'd install a ZIF socket.
No, this is what OpenPGP signed mail is for.
Maybe I've used \b before, but I can't recall using regexes for tokenizing. They've either been too powerful or not powerful enough for my tokenizing needs.
>and then the employee issues options back to the startup

In effect, yes. When the employee purchases the stock, they sign a contract to sell their stock back to the company (with the number of shares to be sold left blank). Their vesting schedule establishes how the number of shares that the company is allowed to repurchase decreases with time, normally with a 'cliff', which removes the need for a probation period.
> There's this pattern I've noticed — chiefly, though not exclusively, amongst us nerds — where, when something doesn't comport with our individual, personal experience, it's immediately judged not merely to be wrong, but obviously wrong, and fatally flawed.

I think the interesting point here isn't that it is obviously wrong but technically and factually wrong in a way that moves the subjective into the objective...but hey, I was already beaten about the head on HN over postmodernism this week...
The other self-driving cars will cope with the detour much faster and graciously than humans could.
Do you think nerds is a special subset of humans? ;)

Believe me, it's practically the same conversations on HN as a bunch of guys at the bar arguing over who the best player is in the NFL.

Nerds are generally proud of their mental dexterity and cunningness, so this is what they feel defines them. In regular life, they generally are the smartest in a room, so overtime they learn to teach themselves: well hey, I might not be the coolest or X, but everyone knows I'm really smart so I'm gonna be that. They learn how to be the "alpha intelligence" so to speak, and quickly dismiss foolish ideas. This ensures their status as alpha and also increases their pride. How could you believe that?! they think to themselves and chuckle with a hint (or more) of schadenfreude.

Now they bring all this behavior to HN, but HN has some pretty smart people so they are a bit more tame. However, you'll always see in "New Product Released" something along these lines: "Well sure, it's great, but X, Y, Z." This is them just doing what they know how to do best -- poke holes. Also, this is HN and not only is it nerds, but hackers. Hackers are fully trained and employed at being master logicians. We are paid at work to poke holes. After all, it's a real waste of time to code it X way when you shoulda just had the foresight to know Y was going to be a problem!

To try and roughly summarize these rough thoughts:

-- Nerds link their intelligence to their identity more strongly than others

-- Nerds enjoy this kind of conversation because it's stimulating. It's the thrill of the battle especially when one wins it.

-- Nerds might spend too much time in this mode of conversation and just learn to talk that way. Some are really not trying to be jerks at all, but just feel that's the way you talk.
That might be (arguably) relevant in San Bernadino, but would be a serious stretch in a methamphetamine distribution case.
Oh yes, the typing something into the big box and publishing it part is obvious, but that's part of my problem.

The interface seems Byzantine to me in general. As long as I'm just reading, I do the two or three things I know how to do and leave the rest of it be. When I think about actually posting something, though, the stakes are higher (since if I do something dumb it will now be public), and that pre-existing general discomfort causes me to back down.

I'm sure I'd feel the same way about a power tool that had lots of complicated switches and might kill me.
> After the 409a valuation of the startup gets too high, this option becomes much harder for employees

(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, not your lawyer, this is not legal/tax advice, etc.)

As I understand it, it's not just the valuation, but also the tax implications. If the options (as granted) are worth more than a certain threshold (~$100K), you can't early-exercise them without losing ISO tax treatment on the value in excess of the $100K threshold. This threshold is on an annual basis, so not exercising them early means that you quadruple[0] the amount that will be eligible AMT (which is preferable to ordinary income tax).

[0] Assuming the standard vesting schedule, in which 1/4 of the shares are made available each year
The idea is to use the Pi as a device to which IoT-focused applications can be deployed after being developed on a Windows PC. For Windows-focused developers, it can be a gateway to building on an unfamiliar platform without abandoning the comfortable dev environment that they're already proficient with.
The comment I replied to was suggesting that vehicle automation would progress so rapidly that it would be practical to start working on such a ban as soon as ten years from now. I'm not disputing that such a ban might eventually become a good idea, but for it to become practical so soon, we'd have to be much, much further down the road to full automation than we are now.

If fully-automated vehicles become commercially available (which seems likely at some point, though not in the immediate future), we will likely see rapid adoption in the applications where they are very well suited, followed by a long, slow, gradual trend toward broader usage. The hardest cases will be the ones sticking around longest, and one can't simply legislate them out of existence. Just replacing a small percentage of the fleet won't come anywhere close! It's only when automated cars have become so dominant that only a small percentage of the fleet still depends on manual drivers that it will become practical to start talking about a ban on manual operation.
Or possibly The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/) and/or Archive Team (http://www.archiveteam.org/).
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition has a decent Haxe plugin.
>serious stretch

How can anyone be sure of that when the issuance and nature of every single NSL remains secret to this day?
Bottom rung is still 60k

Which is much higher than most Americans. You'd be in your tech ghetto making more than your friends who went to a 4 year.
Either is Electron.
It was quite something to see the massively negative reaction from everyone in the thread, followed by the original proposer ramming it down their throats anyway with a sarcastic, dismissive "I appreciate your passion" conclusory remark. Something about being a CoC proposer just makes people terrible.
A good portion of what you pay for in mortgage, you retain in equity. Zero of rent does. Insofar as you pay more in rent, than the non-equity part of your mortgage, the difference is 'money set on fire'.
Careful, that $100 probably won't be worth shit in 20 years let alone 40-50.
I drive at a "correct" following distance. Way back when I took my driving test I was told to allow 1 car length for every 10 MPH speed. So on the highway I leave at least 6 car lengths.

I constantly need to tap the brake and back away as a car cuts into the lane. Almost no one on the highway leaves adequate space for human reaction times.
Ask HN: Why can't I copy and paste into HTML fields?
I've noticed a trend to prevent copying and pasting into HTML fields which I find quite irrational. Doesn't accuracy increase if I'm allowed to copy and paste something? Presently, I'm prevented from copying a checking account number into a field, so I have to type it out by hand, which is much more error-prone. Does anyone know why sites do this?
Another similar technology (with slightly less jumpy scroll, but I'm sure you could tease out some bugs if you tried):

Zurb Joyride -
http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/v/5.5.3/components/joy...

Last time I looked into building an introductory FTUX with intro.js, I found myself trying to make the choice between these two (intro.js and joyride)
"rest of the business impact"?

Given how the tech boom/bust cycles are centered here in the Bay Area over the last 20+ years, business seem fine to stay here and attract talent.

There are also communities here where you can get involved, volunteer, etc. SF doesn't equal the rest of the Bay Area.
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That's an incredibly interesting question. Why doesn't the USGov just spam Apple with NSLs?

I'm guessing that the USG has done this, and they want to move the "debate" into a more public arena so they can get political muscle into a crypto ban. Yadda yadda terrorism leading to fake compromises and "balance". In an election year.

Cynical me expects false flag operations to prop this up further. I hope I'm just being jaded and negative.
And this is the way it should be. Otherwise, we are all deputized slaves to the government.
How was the time period of 10 years picked? It seems rather arbitrary?

As an employee, why would I want a dangling guillotine over my options/compensation?
Bitcoin's problem is not that it has a single reference implementation. It can be forked, at least in a technical sense.

Bitcoin's problem is that a tiny number of people managed to convince key players that they are irreplaceable "experts", despite having repeatedly proven that they aren't experts at all (go check out the Bitcoin forums today to see the wailing of users due to the giant tx backlog).

This isn't something Ethereum has any solution for. If Vitalik stepped back and after a few years some random developers had managed to manipulate the Ethereum community into doing something stupid, having 3 implementations instead of 1 wouldn't save them.
London used to have them. It was sort of amusing watching them trying to navigate the tight corners and narrow streets. But very scary to be near them on a bike.
Are lower pesticide residues a good reason to buy organic? Probably not
> If I had another lifetime to live, I would pour my heart and soul into astronomy. Life is too short.

I know the feeling! Astro is great and I love it. But there's lots of other things I'd love to explore once I figure out galaxies :)
Five Worlds: software development =/= software development (2002)
Why would you pay their social security? You'd be looking for freelancers who they'd be taking
care of that themselves.
Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit [pdf]
Perhaps the reason is that they cannot issue NS letters every time they need an access to someone's iPhone, so they are trying to make Apple create for them a tool that they can re-use in all other cases.

Edited typo.
Google self-driving car hits a bus
Is it within a mod's power to forcibly edit a comment? The comment's good, there's just a small part of it that's uncivil.
Erlang tends to be pretty conservative. Its evolution is a bit different from many open source languages: before it got very popular at all, it got used in some very critical places.
I will just leave this here: http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52fcc3c76bb3f7bf62e...
Is that true though? Other commenters are arguing that the encryption of that flash chip is a value that, while based on the PIN, is sufficiently long as to resist brute force encryption. Is it possible that you're mistaken?
I'd rank Mercedes higher. They even install a cross-hair for better targetting.
Judge actually wrote that accepting the use of AWA that way

"is a reading that thoroughly undermines" "the more general protection against tyranny that the Founders believed required the careful separation of governmental powers.""