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> ...unless you are somehow claiming that money to La Raza is actually consumer relief

I'm claiming three things:

1. It's not at all clear what the best way to provide "consumer relief" for financial fraud on this scale even means. No one is even kidding themselves that it's possible to undo or compensate for the damage caused. Therefore, a relief strategy that basically spreads a lot of money throughout a bunch of charities and non-profits generally helping big classes of people isn't an unreasonable consumer relief strategy.

2. the vast majority of the donations made as part of these settlements went to decidedly non-partisan groups that could very plausibly support consumers most effected by the prosecuted financial fraud. La Raza received 1M among hundreds of millions provided to an enormous variety of types of charities and non-profits. Is your claim really that DoJ crafted a 16B settlement is such a way that they could funnel a measly million dollars to their "cronies" at La Raza et al.? Or is it perhaps more likely that DoJ and BoA agreed on a large set of organizations meeting certain criteria (like "provide housing/community assistance") and started spreading the money around?

3. Even to the extent that money went to partisan groups, it's not at all clear a) why that's a bad thing (see: EFF comment); or b) that this effect was intentional and the settlement calculated to achieve this outcome (as opposed to: here's a more-or-less unbiased massive list of charities, pick some and spread the money around).

> If you want to see the list it's not hard to find... http://bankofamerica.mortgagesettlementmonitor.com/Reports/F...

This is not the document I was looking for.

The WSJ article claims there's a list of DoJ-approved non-profits that these defendants could select from.

But I've been unable to find such a list. The list you provide here is the list of organizations that actually received money* from BoA. Not the list of organizations that DoJ stated it was OK to give donations to. Which is presumably a subset of a DoJ-approved list.

> Do you claim any of the facts I've cited are false, or are you merely criticizing my tone?

I'm not even sure how in the hell one goes about separating tone from factual claim in a statement like "...significant chunks of money that go to political cronies of the justice department..." The tone is the claim. But to be concrete, I think the intent ascribed to DoJ by the tone of your statement is non-existent.
> The 'grunts', the enlisted, no way.

This was less the case in the past fifteen years, where USAF personnel in certain career fields were often pressed into Army roles. Particularly in convoy and military police operations, the Army had overextended itself and needed the other branches to fill in the gaps of trained personnel.

For most airmen, it can be years before you're even considered for deployment. Less than a year into my enlistment as a Security Forces airman, I was sent to be a prison guard ("detainee operations") at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq. There were Army and Navy personnel, but most of their guards were troops put into a role outside of their usual training...a couple years prior such non-police "augmentee" soldiers without proper use-of-force training were involved in the torture incident in the prison at Abu Ghraib.
Yes, but only if they are deducted from your payroll by your employer, which is usually the situation when you have an HSA, but not always. You won't get a FICA refund if you contribute yourself off-payroll, but you will get an income tax refund at least.
Not only is it hilarious, but it's the most likely outcome at this time.

None of the alternative 'deals' we often hear proposed are grounded in any kind of reality.
I found an "article" that explains this a bit [0], the gist is that the App Store is the sticking point. But why would this be the case? What does bash have to do with the App Store app? And why are they still allowed to distribute 3.2?

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-reason-for-some-of-the-Lin...
I worked at Twitter for about 2 years, ending 3 years ago. By the end of my time there I was working maybe 4 hours a day and most of that was in meetings. At the same time, I got told off by my manager for meeting too many of my quarterly goals and he held a meeting to tell the whole team to be less productive in general. If we were waiting on an A/B test to validate the outcome of project 1, we were not to start working on project 2 until that experiment was complete and a launch decision could be made. A/B tests typically last 1-2 weeks, during which there is nothing more to be done on project 1.
It is great to bring this topic on mobile unfriendly display. The posts like these are ones that make keep coming back to hackernews. It reminds me that there are people who really care of the things i care about.
The power company has been upgrading the meters for years to support variable pricing so they can bill by the minute. None of what I've proposed is in any way a difficult or expensive problem to solve.

Of course, the power company having billing by the minute will then create the incentive for such an A/C. That's the whole point!
Rather expensive way to get a lift. It would be cheaper to save the money until you need a ride, then build a bonfire out of cash to attract attention and hail a cab.
London Beer Flood of 1814
Learn to build serverless apps by competing in cloud tank warfare
No, its their fault as executives. Secure systems are expensive and they take time to build properly, which is fully at odds with, "I need this done yesterday". Unfortunately (for them), since they cut the checks, the also get what they pay for.
I think the author misses some key points here. First, the iOS libraries are optimized for the hardware on the iPhone and other devices. It's why they do so well up to a certain point (and why they sunset certain products with regard to iOS upgrades). Whereas Intel's strength is that their processors and other suite of hardware is ready to serve millions of customers right now. Plus, the iPhone is not going to replace the web server, enterprise cloud deployments, and the like any time soon (unless someone rams net neutrality down the throats of all Telcos in all mediums). The author really needs to stop trying to think Apple has this grand vision of getting into cloud hosting, workstations, and enterprise. They have no interest in it otherwise why don't they have divisions for it anymore? Sales on consumer devices like the iPhone are more comfortable for them and they optimized their business models on it. The only thing they want to do now is expand the software and services aspect of the iOS. Hardware is purely a means to achieve that goal.
Picking the right side project
I think I read one of your articles discussing this before I bought my home, and it helped convince me to pull the trigger. I was renting one unit in a duplex, when my landlord put the building on the market. After some months, the price he was asking came down into the range where I could make a play for it, and I did. With a software developer's income, I had no trouble getting approved for a mortgage, and was able to take advantage of FHA incentives to get a low interest, low down-payment loan that I scraped together a down payment for by tightening my belt for a few months. Best decision I ever made.

Since it is a duplex, I've been able to rent out the other unit, and the rent on a big, 2BR apartment in this market is enough that it more than pays the mortgage, leaving me to just pay the property taxes.
Not only is it possible. but at a previous job I soon realized that every one of these people had decided to get together and take over the company.
I wouldn't think "in the market" meant only in stocks. When the stock market falls, other markets (like bond markets) tend to rise, which makes the bonds look like a poorer value and stocks look like a better value, therefore you would re-balance your exposure by selling some bonds and investing in the stocks

That's not always the case, just making the point that rebalancing a portfolio is not necessarily the same thing as trying to time a particular market.
What success looks like for the Apple Watch:

Apple disclosing how many units they have sold.

Apple moving to a 12 month release cycle.

Anyone besides people who were emotionally invested in its success from pre-launch thinking that it's a success.
"I shouldn't be able to get shitty code into production"

Seriously? My job is to watch over your shoulder and double-check everything you do?

No, there's more to life than this.
It's mostly sarcasm, but Uber is one example of several companies whose business model was to disrupt an entrenched industry by providing more value than they were charging for, capture market share, then raise prices. Basically, initially it was cheaper to take an Uber than a Taxi. Currently that's no longer the case.
Yes, this. Is the government going to just keep delaying it?

Spain is a major part of the EU.

There are also a great many British Ex-pats in who retire in Spain, not to mention that Spain is a favourite holiday spot.
My biggest fear as a parent of a child with ASD is the police [1] [2]. My next biggest fear is natural dangers (water, roads, etc). I can train/prevent for the latter danger, but I feel sad that I don't think there's much I can do for the biggest one.

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-entrapment-of-j...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=special+needs+shot+by+police
How to make fat models thin again with Rails Concerns
Who would want a pair of running shoes from a gift basket anyway? There's little chance that they're going to fit right. If they were women's dress shoes it would make a little more sense, they're designed for fashion not comfort. Still, I don't think that's missing out on too much.

Robot competitions have to make producers extra nervous. How do you hold one of those and not end up with a whole bunch of contestants that are nerdy or too ugly for TV?
Compare with the Boston Molasses Flood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Of course it does! But note that in the above case, the investigators didn't have to get anything from Google (and Google wouldn't just hand over that info to a bunch of insurance investigators).

They got the IP addresses from their own site dedicated to that case, which was getting hits from someone searching precisely for that.
It is completely unnecessary for appliances to talk to the power company. They only need to talk to the internet. The power company just posts the spot price on a web site.
The history of PC hardware, in pictures
1 could happen

2 would be interesting but incredibly unlikely

3 would be voted down by the many countries that have non trivial problems with internal divisions

4 can't happen
I can't think of a single positive thing any "company culture" I have experienced (around two dozen places in my lifetime so far) has ever created, but racism, sexism, harassment, homogeneity, demotivation, distraction, drunkedness, fraud, and other negatives were indeed products of "company culture" at almost every company I've worked for that touted a focus on "company culture." Often, even the food/drinks are shit, let alone the rest of the culture.

The great thing about remote work, IMO, is that there is NO remote culture and therefore, you don't have to be subjected to the above as much or as often (the actual article sounds like some generic marketing speak to me about something that doesn't exist). It's one of the huge perks I only realized after starting remote work. Mind you, there are whole classes of people, especially many middle managers, whose only job is to create the above things and call them "company culture," and they are typically not so happy about not controlling those below them through abuses of this idea. Thus, they want to pull the remote workers back into their sphere of influence, where they can be controlled, and their jobs' existence justified.

As far as being off shored: if they thought that was a good idea to begin with, the company would have already done it and I wouldn't be working remotely. They probably also wouldn't be in business anymore.
Exception handling requires some piece of code to actually throw the exception though. A more thorough instantiation of the idea would be aspect-oriented programming.
> EU just can't afford to give the UK a good deal since this will start a chain reaction with other dissatisfied countries.

That's just the kinda of thinking which hurts all parties (much like opposition to free trade in general). An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

There was never much reason to tie so much to free trade: NAFTA does well enough without onerous multinational regulation or free movement; why did the EU insist upon destroying so much of what was essentially British?

What Europe should do is let Britain go, and then allow the free trade which is better for everyone.
Others have commented on the tone of the article. Sure, they're right. Doesn't matter.

Sometimes the value of an article or observation is how it flips your view of the world around.

Apple is a fashion brand that makes jewelry that connects to the internet

Huh. I've never seen or heard it expressed so well before. I've read comments about "integrated ecosystem" and all kinds of other babble.

But that, right there? Fashion company? That's the money quote.

Remember how YC tends to invest in teams, not ideas, people, not tech? Tech is fast, tech is cheap, tech is transitory. (Sure fashion is transitory, too - but people are always buying the next one.)

Apple and a few other "tech" companies just use - and in some cases build - incredibly advanced tech. Viewing them from the perspective of the engineer or MBA means one sees a narrow slice of who they are.

But viewed as a fashion brand, Apple is a whole other thing. Those are the terms on which it should be evaluated.

(I offer no evaluation. My head is still spinning from the perspective jolt.)
Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250,000 to Give a Speech?
Back when online poker was booming, I knew some guys that paid off their college tuition grinding on FullTilt
I am surprised by the 90% should invest in a Roth IRA vs. Traditional if they do not have access to a 401k. I would expect the growth of pre-tax dollars would outweigh having to pay taxes when I withdrawal. Put another way, I expect my retirement income to be 1/2 or less than my current income...
Possibly DiagrammeR?

https://github.com/rich-iannone/DiagrammeR
It sounds like you're trying to go straight from ~zero to Google. Would you torment yourself over being unable to go straight from high school football to NFL superstardom? And have you considered the possibility that NFL superstardom may not be the only way in which you might satisfy your ambition?
As our population ages, how can we rein in rising costs?
EurekAlert has been taken offline after a serious security breach
Flux (the data management architecture for react apps) eschews MVC altogether. Maybe that's related.
To add to this great advice: ask yourself why you pursued this path in the first place. Do you like what you do? It sounds like it's more of a job you struggle with more than you like, perhaps there are tangentially related roles you would enjoy more?
Having worked in the telco world for a bit, I wouldn't say that your description is unusual for a remote site. Generator backup is typical, and a switching office usually isn't manned, so it makes sense that they would arrange for packages to be delivered next door. Window tinting sounds nefarious, but truly could be done just to reduce HVAC load from solar heat. It's also nice to not advertise the pair of $100k+ Cisco or Juniper big iron routers that could be in there.

The amount of equipment that makes up most telco networks is actually pretty incredible. There are tons of small, unmanned sites that house switches, routers, and fiber amplifiers.

That said, I don't doubt that there are tons of sites that look just like this and actually do have something to hide.
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3 would cause remarkably high migration north of the border, some would probably try living in tents. Scots would be complaining of all the bloody English. I know they do that already. :)

4 Fairly sure they can't, or would have by now, just because.
That must be a nice problem to have. Realistically this probably doesn't hit many people, and the ones it does hit already afford accountants who conjure up ways to minimize their taxes. Yea, I know, this is HN, where everyone knows that buddy who's cousin's roommate makes $400K at Google. The average geek doesn't have to worry about this.
Computer craft, a mod for minecraft, would be a far better experience if extended correctly then most of the minecraft programming setups. I've done a few projects in there and could only see how this would help people. I've been able to do really cool systems in there in my playthoughs.
Thanks. Will look into Kaiser // Blue cross first.
Unfortunately HN is really bad at taking jokes unless you explain the joke in the comment. It's also monolingual English. C'est la vie.
Interviewing is a special skill. I would try practicing it with real people (if you haven't already), and to actually implement the algorithms you are struggling with in real-time with your friend that is "interviewing" you. Basic point is that you need to spend some time practicing like crazy where you have the ability to "fail" with friends. I have done a ton of technical interviews, done a qualification exam for my phd (twice :-) ), and its hard. You have to learn how to improve your speaking capabilities, and know the material well enough so that you can speak confidently. Basically if you feel like you are winging it, then you don't know the material well enough. If you feel like you know it, but then "suddenly" forget the info, then that is basically like stage-fright, and you need to practice with people like crazy. Another method is to create like 10 questions that are annoying questions that you can imagine somebody asking you. Then save them someplace. Then on a random Friday afternoon, pull out those questions, get a blank sheet of white paper and sit down and "answer" those questions without looking at a book, and time yourself as you do it. I would not give up, just keep trying.
Mind you, Albania was under Italian military occupation in WW2 - and Italian Fascists while repressive, and anti-Semitic, were not exactly co-operative with the Nazis when it came to carrying out the Holocaust. Their internment camps were prisons, not death camps. [1] (Until it switched sides, and was invaded by Germany.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Italy#J...
Yeah, this is key. I've had countless drivers who were unemployed, either by choice (retirement) or circumstance. A few do try to make it a full-time job. But there's plenty who see it as a stop-gap, something to do when you have time and energy to help make ends meet, and that you can stop at any time, which is important when you're in job-interviewing mode.
My native language is Spanish, and I don't get it.

It's "mañana", by the way. You wrote "español" so you clearly have access to ñ.
Holy shit this is amazing. Thanks for this link. Helped tie together a bunch of scattered finance knowledge I've 'acquired' (or encountered in the wild I guess).
It hugely depends on your tax expectations. For tech workers who typically have high salaries, the 401k is a better solution since it reduces your tax burden.

If your current tax bracket is rather low, or you expect to be earning lots of money through retirement, then Roth IRA can be a better solution.
Any similar articles specific to a UK resident?
The contract is with a publicly traded company...

https://www.google.com/finance?q=eix
That might explain why he's portrayed as such. I doubt anyone twisted his arm to force him to do his own show on RT (The state sponsored Russian Breitbart) however.
Their paid in capital is greater than retained earnings. Which basically means profits are less than what the share holders have put in.
> Take the Netherlands. From what I know, we pay more to the EU than we receive in subsidies and stuff, and hopefully trade is making up for that (who knows).

I'd bet that especially for a country that thrives on trade that a definite win. Just think about the ports of Amsterdam and Rotterdam which serve as huge gateways for goods into the EU. They'd loose large amounts of trade if those goods could not be forwarded tax and border-control free to Germany and France.
This reminds of something Aswath Damodaran pointed out a while back, that software companies that rely on advertising are collectively overvalued, in that they would need to altogether capture more than 100% of the market in order to justify each individual valuation. So any failure to "exceed expectations" results in a seemingly unreasonable drop in market value. [1]

[1] http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.ca/2013/10/when-pieces-dont-...
Sounds like a telephone company central office where all the local copper wires land.
I don't know. I assume since the fear is that other countries will bolt that someone would know why they would bolt and maybe have an idea what could be done.
A constant feature of the past few decades is people commenting on the Mail that the UK is overrun with immigrants and therefore they've moved to Spain. The cognitive dissonance is strong with them.
Some of us would rather take some responsibility for our code than be treated as "peons".
Most Europeans will be confused as most don't know spanish, however translating it you only need to know the reputation of the spanish for being lazy/late.
since we're into the absurd (3 and 4 are Treaty breaches), here's a satirical list of how the UK could respond to the above, in increasing order of nastiness:

1. The residency rights of all EU citizens in Britain are contingent on residency rights of Britons in the EU.

2. Cut corporation tax to 0% and freeze all contributions to the EU budget with immediate effect

3. Veto everything possible in the Council until exit, and voting against where QMV applies

4. Send half the Royal Navy to the Mediterranean and offer to transport anyone from Northern Africa to the south of Europe, and use the rest to exclude EU ships from British waters

of course once you're at 4 you're basically at war, and then maybe May will press the red button and launch Trident at Brussels
> First, when most people talk about static typing, they're talking about the near-useless version -- just types like Int and String. I think we agree there, so I won't mention it further.

I don't agree. Who is "most people"? Certainly not PL designers and not most of what I've seen here in HN. More importantly, it's also not what the article under discussion is saying, either.

> Static typing errs on the side of safety, dynamic typing errs on the side of flexibility. Both can mimic the other. Arguing that one is better is like saying linear regression is better/worse than k-nearest-neighbors.

In my experience, this isn't true. Modern statically typed languages have all the convenience of dynamically typed ones, such as REPLs and elegance, plus the safety of early warnings and the guidance that static types give you while writing your code (if you've ever written code like this, you'll know the feeling of working with building blocks that "fit" with each other). So you can have your cake and eat it, too.

Also in my experience, not having experience with these languages is what leads some people to think their type systems can only state trivial things such as "this is a String". They can do more. They can say things such as "this expression/function doesn't write to disk as a hidden side effect", which is useful!