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I don't want to be rude, but this doesn't make much sense.

Preferential tax treatment for retirement savings accounts was created with the the specific intention of encouraging people to save for retirement, in order to minimize the extent of poverty among senior citizens. It is a feature, not a bug, that these accounts make it difficult to speculate, because the speculation decisions of amateurs and even most professionals are provably, demonstrably worse in aggregate returns than buy-and-hold passive investment in the overall economy.

If you want to speculate on real estate, you are free to do so. You just have to pay taxes on the money used to do so, so that the government can afford to rescue you from poverty if you fail.

> Since the market has been bad lately, I remained in cash.

For the record, buying at the top of the market and cashing out in downturns is the maximally wrong investment strategy. A random number generator would in general outperform this strategy, because at least some of the time it would do anything but that.
Then, take a look at the zoning restrictions on where you can(t) place those.
Public domain in the USA, but automatically copyrighted in practically every other country in the world.
Nix the package manager is for getting deep control and hard guarantees about your dependencies. NixOS uses Nix, but also gives you ways to 1) specify your system's configuration declaratively from the beginning* and 2) reliably get that configuration running on another machine without having to worry about, say, conflicts with existing dependencies.

Or at least that's the theory. In practice I'm mostly still trying to get my mouse to work. :-P

*As opposed to layering a declarative system over an imperative one, which I think is more or less what Chef, Docker, Ansible, et cetera are doing.
Really? I did not know that. I guess here the Vladimirs put up with the contraction to Vlad as they're among the barbarians. ;-) Good to know though, thanks.
I think you should be able to build it the way you want, and if you wish to rent it, or sell it, then it has to brought up to standards. I bought a house with deck railings that were far apart even though I had a 3 month old baby. We kept the door to the deck locked, and I installed railings the following Spring. I grew up in Brooklyn, but I now live in rural East Java, Indonesia. Yep, life is very different, but I like it. You adapt. Some people choose not to, and that is their perogative. I think rent control is a big issue in the sense that it allows people who can truly afford a higher rent, a nice lifestyle. A friend lived in TriBeca NYC, paying $600 per month for a > 2000 sq. ft. loft in an area of million dollar lofts. She could afford it, or to move to Brooklyn at the time, but did not want to leave the luxury afforded to her by rent control. It's not old people eating cat food out of cans in unheated apartments as much as people protray it. I lived in Chelsea, NYC in the late 1990s. I paid a fair rent, a lot of older people paid rent control, or their grandkids who lived there while they lived elsewhere in the suburbs. I spoke to the owner of the building, who showed me the boiler that was constantly in need of repair. He said he wanted to buy a new one, but 90% of the tenants were paying around $400 per month rent. The boiler installed was over $100K. I like to see both sides. My belief is we should do away with rent control, let the market stabilize, build affordable housing up to code, and ride the wave until it becomes a better situation. Subsidies, and delaying the solution is only creating more disparity.
I don't think him being a non-music fan has anything to do with him not wanting it to be seen as just another music device though. IF what you built enables things that weren't possible before, you probably don't want it to be associated with already existing products in a crowded market.
It's weird you would use the telecom industry as an example of the wonders of laissez faire capitalism. This is an industry that naturally tends toward monopolies and once acquired, have shown in the past a willingness to overcharge and under deliver.

> Europe/Asia is much less regulated in this respect

Do you have a source for that in Europe? Ofcom in the UK is far more powerful then the FCC and actively inserts itself into all aspects of the telecom industry there. Additionally the EU just passed free roaming laws, a pretty big piece of regulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulat...
They clearly underestimated the cost of the Model S (it's a luxury car, not a "sporty affordable family car"). But overall their strategy seems to be working out beautifully.
That doesn't seem like such a great example; when companies get a tax break, it's usually with restrictions on its use as well. That's the whole point of having a tax break: encouraging certain behaviors.
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When it comes out it might be interesting to cross reference this against the released Hillary emails.
The problem with treating investment profits as regular income is that you can have negative investment profit but you can never have negative income. If I make 100k one year on my investments and loose 100k the next year I effectively paid taxes without making any money.
You forgot the mandatory Oracle license the tender no doubt called for.
In one city, with really good road paint, street signs, and incredibly detailed maps compared to everywhere else, almost no rains, and never any snow. And those cars are rare. Try making 10% of the cars on the road made up of them, all of which go to the extra safe fallback mode at a particular intersection; 1 out of 10 cars doing that will annoy the hell out of 8 of the other human driven cars. Now try 30% of the cars made up of cars in fallback.

I think autonomy will be partial, conditional, and thus not door to door autonomous for at least a decade.

I sooner expect Alphabet to sell this tech to a big 10 auto manufacturer, or to Apple, for the same reasons as Boston Dynamics: where's the cashflow? If it's not up for sale in 5 years, I'll expect it's the real deal and we'll see door to door in another 10 years.
Things a PC should be better than a laptop at:

1. Graphics power

2. CPU power

3. RAM

4. Size (smaller)

5. Any/all of the above

(Storage wasn't included in that list as who hasn't already externalised all storage?)

I'm seriously considering not buying another laptop and instead purchasing an Intel NUC.

I've got to that point where owning a laptop has led me to have a NAS, a decent DAC and stereo, a big panel for viewing films... aside from web browsing it feels like the things I do on my laptop are not in the laptop's sweet spot (gaming, graphics, video editing, encoding, compiling, spinning up VMs and dockers, etc).

Then I look at my full-size keyboard, my external display that is better than the laptop display and I wonder why I have a laptop. A machine that is compromised in every way to make it portable when I barely take it anywhere (and always will have a work laptop I do work trips with, and a smartphone for recreation trips).

I'd rather a tiny, but powerful, silent PC.

I view my primary PC (the laptop presently) as disposable... because I've externalised storage, display, audio... I feel I just want a small powerful generalised computing machine. Nothing more.

PS: If anyone can recommend something not far from the NUC in size, but with higher CPU + RAM capabilities, and potentially that looks aesthetically pleasing then I'm all ears.

PPS: Not the Mac Mini, it's ugly, has a large footprint, tops out at 16GB (costs a lot to get there) and all of the ports seem very outdated. More towards a Mac Pro in CPU and RAM, but with a lower price tag and can run Linux (or whatever) without sulking. The NUC for me would be a cheap stop-gap until something like this emerges.
can this be of good use in developing countries?
Sure, but you have to live in Houston. Austin house prices in good school districts are expensive. I just sold a house for 10k in a small town in a part of Texas with almost no jobs, so you can find houses, but houses close to the biggest job markets in desirable neighborhoods just aren't that cheap. You can, however easily retire in BFE with a cheap house if that's the desire.
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Possibly because it was a sysadmin that leaked it. It has to be decrypted at some point for people to see it.
... Tesla already has a few voice controls. But, really, the most common case is using the buttons on the steering wheel.
I suspect that the myth is that anyone will follow through on it. The ass covering is probably real.
Because one anecdote is data... Fact is, the restaurant industry is bigger than ever. Consumers now spend more money eating out than on groceries.

David Chang may not have figured out how to pay good salaries and make money, but many others have. And regardless, one failing restaurant (group) doesn't negate the fact that restaurant dollars are out there...
(Due Disclosure: Ex ThoughtWorker)

Pat is certainly very sharp and thinks deeply about issues. So are many other ThoughtWorkers, he is not alone.

But otoh, TW also has a minority of dogmatic agile/TDD etc people for whom such practices are close to religion and any other approach is blasphemy. It seems you might have run across some of them.

The best way for a client to use ThoughtWorks is to get their team to work on a chunk of software, keep them from switching taleted developers out for more junior folks, and add a couple of client devs to that team for a few months at a time. This ensures high quality and osmosis of practices without the kind of high pressure conversion tactics you seem to have experienced.

ThoughtWorks is a great company and has many talented and thoughtful devs, but if you are paying them you have to pay attention to how they work and not let a few bad apples run amok and destroy your team morale.

Just my 2 cents.
Charming? Drive through any single family detached neighborhood in America during the summer and count how many people are actually enjoying their yards.

Where you see charm some of us see waste. Grass is ugly and so are single detached family homes. Row houses look nice, so do skyscrapers. Inventing a simulacrum for the country estate and calling it a "dream" is a bad joke I'd like everyone to start laughing at.

This is it. This is the mother of all bad policies in the USA! From keeping African Americans out of our neighborhoods via red lining, to increased police presence, to one generation's artificial chokehold on the housing stock. Americans should feel nothing but disgust for most of our housing policy, and single family homes should be derided as one of single worst allocation of resources the American public makes. People defend these things as lifestyle choices, and almost never live into the carrying capacity of the asset they buy. It is one lifestyle choice I feel comfortable judging.

Just so no one thinks I don't have any skin in the game I do have a child.
This sure looks nice. My problem with nice looking Linux is that I becomes too limited and I get forced into habits that I don't like. Now all I use is bspwm, no status bars or anything, a lot of times I miss having something good looking though. But I became happier when I just let it go, it's easy to go down that road of constant tweaking.
I have been extremely unimpressed with my experiences post-publication peer-review. Limited to no feedback for many papers, and some clearly "How dare you stray onto my turf" related comments.
Pretty cool to see Nylas N1 featured! (Check the console text)
I remember their plan is basically how Ford operated.

It's just crazy to see them beat the competition so badly.

I remember seeing the concept car for the Chevy Volt a few years ago and thinking how cool it was.

Then they released it and made it aerodynamic and thus
BORING.

It's pretty nuts this car is 35k and the list of advantages
to disadvantages can be summed as.

There's no reason to buy any other car.
What a faggot.
> you are defending a greedy corporation that offers nothing to science

Several journals I publish in published by commercial companies also support scientific societies.
This isn't an unusual phenomenon at all. If a person asks their 75 closest friends whether they own a snowmobile, the answer is likely to be 0 or a lot. Nobody's friends constitute a random sample.
The backlash is just whiney competition. Many people in India see the iPhone as a status symbol. If it is more affordable and comes with a warranty from Apple, people will buy it even if it is refurbished.
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Transparent shell might look nice, but is useless for work.
What do the passengers do to control the climate for them?

Or how does the passenger change the music while you are viewing the map?

I really dislike there being only a single control centre. Good for the driver without passengers perhaps, but bad otherwise.
I'm not sure I understand what the parent's point was, however I thought it would be interesting to point out that there are almost no old buildings in Japan. Especially for houses, you would be really hard pressed to find more than a handful of inhabited houses that are more than 30 years old in any given city. The Japanese fashion is to knock down the old house and build a new one in it's place. There is virtually no market for old houses (and, in fact, you will often get less money trying to sell land with a house on it than if you demolish the house yourself).

Of course there are lots of old temples and shrines but even those have often had every single piece replaced. I was really surprised a couple of years ago when one of the local shrines tore down their building completely and rebuilt it exactly the same!

Whether this has to do with earthquakes or not, I'm not entirely sure. My wife and I have been thinking of buying a house and I keep having to remind myself that I will lose money if I ultimately sell. Our current plan is to wait until we're a bit older and then buy a not-too-old used house at a discount ;-)
"Misattributed quotes taken out of context can be used to defend anything"

-Mahatma Gandhi

http://www.snopes.com/first-they-ignore-you/
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TheParent's explanation makes more sense. Note that the key use case they mentioned for that was an offering for the Docker ecosystem:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/11/google-cloud-container-eng...

So, people are using Kubernetes in the Docker community. Google offers a GCE service for that. This seems incidental to Go with community and demand really driving its use. That they avoid it internally where possible is still a strong point given the large ecosystem developing around Go. Assuming it's true that they avoid it for C++ and Java of course.
Are you running cool/good defaults for NixOS? I'd be very interested in the specifics.
Every man to his taste. I personally think most of the 60's cars looked all the same, squared box that looked like a coffin on wheels (and drives like one too), unless you are talking about unique cars such as shelby cobra, gt40, or some ferrari like 250, the rest of the "regular" cars all looked the same. Same thing is happening today, most of the mainstream cars look alike, but if you are willing to spend more - then you have cars like maseratti, aston, lambo, ferrari, that most certainly don't look alike.
Note: this is interesting because the propellers will actually do the talking!

"Accordingly, the controller may determine and cause to implement modulations of the rotational speed of a propeller, thereby causing the propeller to produce a series of sounds that are audibly perceptible as “Watch out!”
Finally someone talking some sense. The whole Elon cult of personality really clouds the discussion. (though don't get me wrong - I think he's a really cool guy)

The Leaf has been around for a lot longer than Tesla and isn't just a fantasy luxury item only the very wealthy can afford).

In my personal opinion I think their approach of working directly at the mass market price point will pay dividends in the long term.

The free supercharging stations I think is a gimmick. Nothing is free - you get what you pay for. The price of that luxury is folded into the price of the car. I could be wrong - maybe it's a clever enough market tool to get people to pay up - but it'll probably be more practical for most people to rent a car for that long weekend drive.
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I wonder how people feel about nix. Broken updates are by design a minor issue since it's transactional/rollbackable.
> Grants typically include publishing costs, it's very rare the scientist will pay out of pocket.

Though for small labs just starting out, two or three open access publications written into a grant definitely could have gone to salary for someone. Even if it's written into a grant, it's not a trivial expense.
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Note that by "PC", the article means "Windows laptop". Desktop machines are not even mentioned.
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I am a fan of Tesla and am excited for the Model 3, but some of the hype around the car is a bit much. I think this is a good counter-perspective: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/31/tesla-s-mod...

Creating an affordable EV at mass consumer scale is a much harder problem than creating a luxury EV at modest volume. However, if there was anyone I would bet on making this work and building an amazing car, it would be Elon Musk and team.
The vast majority of people are idiots who shouldn't be allowed to touch a computer with a barge pole, though. I don't really care what kind of experience they want.
I can tell you it does 2k vs 25k rps on my machine, but I suggest you run it on your machine.
https://github.com/gnuradio/volk
The lifetime of most cars is 14-20 years (half of it on the second-hand market). Tesla's is 8 years, if I understand. It makes their cars twice as expensive in effect.
Looks good Penne! I'll let you know how we get on... www.meetcleo.com
Denver. Double digit rent and housing increases for 2-3 years now.
I wonder how much of this is related to the harsh corporate tax environment in the US. Take Apple for example. They can't use their offshore cash to directly fund buybacks or dividends without repatriating the money and paying high US corporate taxes on it. Instead, they have borrowed against their offshore cash to make buybacks, and then whatever cash is needed for debt service can either be funded from operating income or by importing offshore cash in a relative trickle, with a correspondingly low tax burden, while the money grows virtually tax-free overseas.

So by doing share repurchases with borrowed money, shareholders and executives can reap the benefits of offshore cash without subjecting it to the enormous tax burden they would by directly repatriating the money. As long as corporate profits are still piling up abroad, this trend of corporate buybacks will likely continue.
I wonder if they knew this was coming.
Isn't the problem the cost of the land? 100k for a house that's up to code financed over 30 years should be reasonably affordable?
That's interesting. You have a link for that?
8 years for the battery or the car? The batteries are replacable in a minute or so.
Photos should be working. Once the content is extracted the DOM is scanned for images to be downloaded. Images are then size to be 100% width of the screen.

It's looked fine for all the sites, I've used but results can really vary depending where the content comes from.

If you find any sites that aren't displaying correctly, send the urls to support@epub.press and I'll happily dig a little deeper.

Thanks for the feedback!
ThoughtWorks does custom software consulting, and specializes in high-throughput projects.

For example suppose you're Acme Widgets, and you want to build a web app, mobile app, analytics, a data lake, real-time stream processing, and all the continuous delivery tooling to go with this.

You can hire ThoughtWorks to provide the team to build all this and also teach your own people how to do it. The pay is essentially the same as you'd pay hiring your own employees for the project, i.e. time and materials.

The advantage of hiring ThoughtWorks is when you want a team of people who all know how to work together, and you want the team for a specific project goal.

An example that may be useful for the Hacker News readers: suppose you work for a San Francisco startup, and you want to ship a product fast, and do validated learning something like the Lean Startup book, or Steve Blank's Business Model Canvas. You can have your own employees building the core product, and you can hire a ThoughtWorks team to build your client apps, continuous delivery pipelines, analytics dashboards, and the like.
Interesting theory. However most non electric cars look ugly too because...well, I have no idea.
Related is Tesla's recycling program of batteries: https://www.teslamotors.com/nl_NL/blog/teslas-closed-loop-ba...

Some people are skeptical about electric cars because the estimate life span of a battery is around eight years.
But reading the article above (and others) you can see the batteries are not an issue anymore.

I was also a little skeptical about electric cars but I think the absolute pros are:

* Electricity can come from any source (coal, nuclear, sun, water, waste, aliens).
* No emission (in cities).
* No noise pollution.

But I still got one issue with a lot of those environment friendly solutions.
Because why would you use a lot of energy for sensors, insane mode, automatic doors, displays, computers, and so on?
I know you need some of them but in the end environment friendly means: using less energy (in any form).
Can't believe I keep feeding you guys stuff so I can get even more downvoted, but this almost feels like talking to a wall. This is my last comment on this thread because I know you'll probably say I'm wrong again, but I'll try my best to explain. 5 years ago if you built a cool project or startup you would pitch TechCrunch, Mashable, etc. (a handful of sites), and that was it. Most likely it would have been ignored. Then there's not much you can do. Nowadays there's room for creativity. You can even reach out to people on Twitter via @messages and get their attention. That didn't exist before. Also you guys make it sound like getting through the Product Hunt "gatekeepers" is some mission impossible but that only means you haven't tried, because if you tried you would know that they are also people just like you and want to share cool products. My point is, in the past, unless you spend lots of money you had little power over whether your project gets attention or not. Nowadays if you're on HN complaining about how it's same as back then, you're probably doing it wrong. There are tons of ways you can get exposure for your projects and you're not trying hard enough or not being creative enough if you're saying it's the same.
Yeah, it was to help others avoid injury. I really do think that the biggest factor is taking easy days as well as easy weeks.

>"They're ill served by your willingness to hold forth without benefit of relevant experience or familiarity with the actual science of the matter."

This is really rude and makes more uncharitable assumptions.

The fact is I have helped a lot of friends and family members of various ages and sizes get into running without injury, and to go through marathon programs in some cases. While I've read more books and journals on running than most people ever will, I don't think trading links to them with angry people on the internet is productive. Have a good day.

tldr; Take easy days. Take easy weeks. Listen to your body.
I don't understand the flippant comment. You asked a legitimate question and I gave a legitimate answer? Is there some joke I missed?
How does this relate to my point?