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> But I think people will reclaim time commuting if they're not actively driving--likely by working remotely (or personal entertainment). I hope that'll lead to changes in work patterns like working remotely most days or allowing people to shift their schedules even more.

If broadband internet, or high speed data for train commuters, hasn't made working remotely a thing yet, then I don't see how self-driving cars are going to do it. Seems more likely to be the opposite, like the Googlebus: look how much easier it just got for you to work even more hours!
I had an m1530 from 2008. It was still working great until 2015 when it stopped booting. I gave it to a friend for parts, but he used a blowtorch to redo the GPU solder. Says it is still working just fine today.
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It would be interesting to see economic data from areas near the Katy Freeway in TX with a total of 26 lanes and see if the economic growth is abnormally high around there.
A light rapid transit system has a capacity in excess of 20000 passengers per hour per direction.

A $1B investment in public transport can buy you a whole lot more than 1.7k vph. Hell, you could reserve that new lane for buses and transport a magnitude more people than those vehicles carry starting tomorrow.
It's more than people being used to free access. Tolls on a major highway like the 405 would effectively be a regressive tax - people need to get to work and in L.A. there often is no alternative. And people seem to generally agree regressive taxation is not a good idea.
Poor William Jevons. "You guys! It's not a 'paradox', it's just mildly counter-intuitive causality! Come on!"
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> Nothing they did was illegal until the EU change their laws 25 years retroactively.

That's oversimplifying what happened. What happened is that Apple was working with the Irish government for a deal with very low tax %. The EU now told the Irish government that this was illegal, and that they need to ask Apple to pay the full price. Retroactively.

If you play dirty around the rules don't complain when it does not work out. If Apple had simply played according to the rules none of this would've happened.

The excuse that 'everyone does it' is a bad one. It doesn't work out for all the criminals in jail in US for dealing drugs, now does it?
I don't know that PPC Macs were ever far ahead of PCs, performance-wise at least. At best there was a relatively big leap from "much slower than what you can get in a PC" in the tail end of the 68040 era to "pretty close to what you can get in a PC" in the early PPC days. But then PPC performance stagnated and left Apple in the lurch again, which helped drive the eventual jump to Intel.
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When the RSUs vest you usually have the option to take all and pay the appropriate tax when tax season comes around OR take a reduced amount to cover the taxes. Do you recommend/have a preference? What are the pros and cons?
> My example wasn't meant to be in Common Lisp, just a nebulous "Lisp" dialect.

And how can I believe you? this is just too late.

> I'm just trying to clear up some confusion [...]

You were spreading confusion by using a dialect of Lisp known only by you, that looked exactly like CL, without giving proper warnings.

> I'm not trying to be critical of CL. I thoroughly enjoy working in CL.

Fine, but this would have been the same if you used a nebulous "Scheme" without saying it so.
“A costly gift from a gentleman to a young lady would be indelicate, as having the appearance of a bribe upon her affections.”

I appreciate this line. There's some foresight here to avoid pressuring a woman or forcing some obligation on her due to an expensive gift.

Gender aside, that's a nice foresight to have with anyone.
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"I was an early engineer at Zenefits and found myself holding stock options seminars to explain this stuff to the rest of the engineers."

This is a tricky position to be in, considering that in this sort of situation, you're generally explaining to people a small subset of the ways that they can get screwed. As much as it might seem nice to see people spending lots of time trying to figure out what their stock options are worth, it's not worth the time or effort. By the time you have it figured out, it's changed. And the future is so unknown. If everything goes great and the company hits all of its targets, stock options will be worth something. If there's a bump in the road, you're toast.
OP here. I did find this post which was fascinating (but a bit simplistic since it uses only temperature as an input):

https://arnesund.com/2015/05/31/using-amazon-machine-learnin...
In arabic "slippery slope" translates to a similar idiom:
انزلاق خطير

Which means literally "a dangerous slip".

There are other close idioms but I can't recall any right now.
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Eh, is it? If users buy the app, why shouldn't they also get the source with it?

Ethically, and morally, requiring the source to be available might be good.
>Of course it wasn't worth it. Road improvements for cars incentivize driving, and so the result is more traffic.

If it takes you 75 minutes to go 15 miles you already have plenty of incentive not to drive.

People keep moving to Southern California whether the traffic network can handle them or not. "Let's stop building roads so our home is a famously crappy place to live and people stop coming" isn't really a sound coping strategy.
> You took a loan? Good, repay it. You're an adult, you made a decision.

Loans involve risk for the lender and the borrower. There is no moral obligation to pay back a loan at any cost.
Another interesting wrinkle is that they were obeying the law in the country / nation they were doing business in, but it was the trade/economic/currency group (euro zone) that told them that what they were doing wasn't allowed.

One problem here is that in the race to the bottom it will always be difficult to hold companies accountable.

wgt regulations in general, the same happens in every state in the US (see delaware)
Yeah but some solutions scale dramatically better than other solutions, so let's switch to those.

Cars physically take up a very large amount of space compared to a pedestrian or person on a bike. This is why car oriented transportation scales so badly.

With highway expansion we're trying to scale up the transportation solution that is that requires the most area. This is dumb and expensive.
What is the author referring to when he says it looks like a 'kingfisher'?
An area I wish the NY Times had dug deeper on, as this article seems fairly light compared to the local coverage of "did traffic on the the 405 get better? nope not really," is did seeing how little impact this massive highway project had help convince 70% of LA county voters to pour massively more money into public transit then ever before?
Yup, and this is what was happening (AFAIK) and why they added the stipulation that student loans weren't absolved in bankruptcy.

Otherwise, why not everyone become a neuro-surgeon? A couple hundred thousand dollars wiped away right after collage, only so they can become paid far beyond reasonable wages afterward and owe nothing.
Im surprised credential theft is still the lowest hanging fruit.

I thought Banks seem to have solved alot of that.
Does society really need a large portion of its population to be subsidized in binge drinking and partying for 4 years, as much as it needs people trained in technical skills?

If you look at the study data on retained knowledge and hours studied in the liberal arts, they paint an unflattering view of what a 'liberal arts education' really is today. I am all in favor of people studying philosophy, history, and language, but I'm not sure how much it helps society, and students aren't learning anything anyway.
My wife's in her final year of residency, so I know what you mean. I work from home in part to be around when she's off, but the demands of the lifestyle are especially clear when you see neighbors pulling into driveways at 5:30pm, friends enjoying a full weekend, vacations, and having several days off around the holidays.

Residency, by not granting you those things that people normally take for granted, helps you appreciate them!
No one said anything about a perfect solution. Did you throw that in there to make a really bad solution seem acceptable?

If you don't have proper urban planning a lot of things, like mass transit, will be much more expensive in the future. You need right of ways, for example.

One of the reasons that the "bullet train" between LA to SF is so ridiculously expensive is because getting the land is a lot harder than it would have been 50 years ago. In fact, they changed the route so it would be cheaper. $100 billion dollars...
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Here's a relevant assessment by a UChicago tax professor on this very topic (i.e. the "duty" of APPL execs to avoid taxes) [0].

tl;dr: "Tax avoidance" isn't a "fiduciary duty" per Delaware corporation law. That said, APPL execs may be subject to such standards through its corporate bylaws or through a variation in state law (CA v. DE).

[0] http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2015/12/a-duty-to-min...
Thanks for that, it looks interesting.
Lara Croft is the only one my spouse could name. My spouse teaches a university class on video game narrative.
well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
>> What came out of this deal not only saved Apple and the Mac, but made the iPhone, iPad and more possible as well.

What prevents Apple from making the iPhone and iPad? They could have bought Palm, QNX, did something based on Linux...

What was the key? BSD? Objective-C? I don't see those being that important.

The one thing NeXT did enable them to do was the PowerPC to Intel switch.
I understand the basics of actual stock options, but get confused by employee stock options. What would you say is the difference?
I think he's oversimplifying by assuming separation of html, css, js is 'The way to go'. It's a way, not the way. Building views by composing functions is actually really interesting and should not be discarded that quickly. He would probably die if he looked how you build interfaces with OM.
Good point - I should have clarified that I'm only interested in short term predictions at the moment (1-3 days).
If you have a service run with systemd you can use this in the unit file:

AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE

otherwise you'll have to run setcap any time the binary changes.
Steve Jobs.
"I’d argue that this is probably the single most important tech acquisition of all time."

Microsoft buys the pieces that eventually become MS-DOS?

Going back further, pharma companies buying tech that they turned into mass produced antibiotics and gave us the sulfa drug revolution?

Apple buying NeXT hardly compares to the acquisition of steel smelting.
Yep. Autonomous cars are going to remove many of the factors that discourage driving, such as parking costs, and licensing. Resultantly there will be a greater incentive to drive, and we'll could very well see an explosion in car use.
I'm a medical student. According to legend, yes, William Osler (one of the founding physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital) used cocaine to increase his energy and focus while working.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Osler
ahaha, that's a good piece of anecdote.
let me augment this with a real world example of why knowing about stock options is important for those cases where you need to understand why _not_ to exercise.

recently I left a company after 3 years, with a decent chunk of options in my comp. the company is not publicly traded, is still deep in the red, is still trying to raise more rounds of venture capital (thus increasing dilution), and has no exit in sight for the foreseeable future.

My cost to exercise my options at their strike price would have been just over $8000 bucks, and then there would be additional taxes on top of that for whatever the face value of the purchased shares would be. These are illiquid assets, mind you, so the face value would be taxed, but there were no buyers, so it's just an outright loss.

I left those options unexercised. I certainly didn't feel like donating $8000 bucks to my former boss' checking account and then paying extra taxes on it all for the privilege of sitting on illiquid assets for an indeterminate number of years (with a high probability of the stock never being worth anything at all).

Understanding the structure and fees and taxes of the options is very important specifically so you don't go and throw good money after bad in situations like this.
> 14.0-in. IGZO QHD+, 3200x1800

16:9 is kinda crappy, but 3200x1800 is resolution that works nicely at @2x. Seems better than both the MBP (too low for @2x) and 4K (too high for @2x, too low for @3x).
The addition of the HOV lane is worth it IMO. The single-rider commuters of course are still kvetching because they are receiving a nominal change in their commute times. Carpools however are benefitting and carpooling is the needed behavior modification.
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Much of the apparent quality is the prohibition of topics that will attract controversy _regardless of their importance_ and regardless of the authenticity of the commenters who spam nonsense on it.

For example, I imagine this item[1] would be of some interest to anyone dealing with ad revenue yet it is unworkable on HN as is essentially all discussion of Russian hacking.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/technology/forgers-use-fak...
>Regarding #3, I'm personally 100% against any online advertising in any form.

What is your preferred method of paying people on the internet for their content? Do you think that micropayments would be a valid way to deal with this compensation gap?
The bird: http://i.imgur.com/9A1wwRs.jpg
I went to school in Idaho and paid in-state tuition at a state school so my education was not excessively expensive. I worked part time during the school year and full time in the summers. I still graduated with 25k in student loan debt. I don't think what you are suggesting is possible for everyone.

I spent my first couple years trying to go the no-debt route but quickly realized it would take me 8+ years to graduate.
I wouldn't exactly call Apple's cash war chest "money circulating within the US economy" but I will take your point as given.. by definition money that returns to the US will technically be (once again) "in the US economy".

A significant portion of those profits were shifted overseas to avoid taxation within the US. Providing a "tax holiday" in order to repatriate those monies essentialy validates the tactic of shifting profits overseas to avoid taxation until a critical mass of dollars has accumulated so that it is politically attractive to institute another "holiday" just to bring the money home sans the tax.

This tactic is starving the US Treasury of funds needed for the People's Government to perform its functions.

This isn't the first go around with this, it is in fact becoming cyclical.

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

In the meantime, these entities are parking dollars out of reach (actively removing them from circulation) instead of investing or spending them within the US.. where they would have been circulated anyway if not for the tax avoidance. They are being rewarded for removing the money and then politicians are being hailed as heroes for "convincing" them to return it by helping them avoid paying taxes to put it back in the economy it was removed from.

I fail to see how you think any of this is beneficial to the US economy.
There's more than one way to build a federated network. XMPP follows the IETF model, with standards and code only loosely coordinated, and evolves through optional extensions. Matrix is trying something different: a versioned, more monolithic specification, with reference implementations and SDKs.

Signal's approach has its share of problems, too. It took OWS two years from the start of iOS development to deliver voice and text support. (They may not have been working on it the whole time, but that just underscores the problem.) The iOS app doesn't support rotation. Desktop support was a long time coming, and the multi-device experience still kind of sucks.

It's great that WhatsApp could push end-to-end encryption to a billion users at once. But none of my friends who care about end-to-end encryption trust Facebook, and Signal isn't winning over the others.
Exactly. And it's not just airline pilots. Truck drivers have hours of service rules, too. So do railroad engineers.
It would be great if someone wrote an article about the alternate histories where Apple chose other strategies. For instance, what an Apple-Be merge would have resulted in, what kind of products and tech. And how NeXT would have lasted without Apple.
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True. And at least they got a working OS out of the deal instead of futzing with Copland or Taligent for who knows how long.

Imagine if our iPhones ran BeOS.
It's 11 out of 14 hours, then a 10 hour break.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/Dri...

There's some additional rules about how many hours can accumulate over a certain period of days (the period is rolling, it doesn't reset).
The phone comes with everything you need to charge it. It is neither absurd nor user-hostile. Inconvenient, maybe. Annoying, yes. Anything else is an exaggeration.
I have not yet lived in a metro area in the United States where traffic is not bad, particularly at rush hours. Try getting from Boston to Cambridge any time outside the early morning hours. Or Seattle to Tukwila.
That's interesting, if it's actually the case. It seems a bit of a stretch to me--Uber is still opening itself up to existential risk--but if by doing so it can plausibly kneecap Tesla and if it views Tesla similarly as an existential risk, this move might make sense.

ETA: That is, from a business perspective. The fact that you might kill a couple people in the meantime is kind of a deal breaker from a moral point of view.
I can definitely relate with you on this story.

My wife is getting ready to start an OB/GYN residency next year (lasts 4 years for those who don't know). She just wrapped up interview season and each program had just about the same scheduling for their residents: 5 12-hour shifts at a minimum if you're lucky with one 24-hour shift per week on top of that. Often times I heard "one weekend off every six weeks". Then there's call.

I write this as I read more through your comment... the statement on the kids, medical training running your life... all true.

The other part, that I'm sure you can personally relate to, is "The Match". The "sorting hat" algorithm that all 4th-year med school students have to go through. For those unaware, the match dictates the program that a doctor candidate (MD or DO) must attend for residency. Given where my wife attended medical school, we already know that we're going to have to pack up and leave the home that we've established over 4 years since there are no residencies in our region. But since everything is done through "The Match", it's really a toss-up where in the country we end up (she applied to every program in the country since competition mandates that everybody do absolutely everything)... we'll be finding out in about 6 weeks where we will live come summertime. "Runs our lives"... so accurate.

I do what I can to support my wife through this endless process, but boy is it exhausting for everyone involved. I have no clue how she does it.

It truly is an enormous sacrifice of - really - some of the best (at least youthful) years of your life. Want to become a doctor? Say bye-bye to your 20s.

Edit: drawing context from another person who also commented on your post, we've also heard kids during second-half of residency can be a good route to go. We're thinking 3rd year ourselves.
I bet the big difference in experiences relates to what type of school. In state tuition at many state schools can be 1/5 of top-tier private school tuition. Using part time and summer jobs to pay for school that costs $12k/year while living at home is much easier than paying for a school that costs $50k/year plus housing.
> No way on earth a user app should be getting its own time

This practice is becoming increasingly common for "time-sensitive applications":

https://eng.lyft.com/freezing-time-6ebe8ffe3321
> Don't force the touchscreen. Just use it when it makes sense.

This is like saying "Don't force the new touch bar on macbook pro. Just use it when it makes sense.". A lot of people are pissed about how useless the touch bar is. You can make the same argument about this but the thing is, they could have done better. There's nothing wrong with people criticizing something that's bad. Sure you can just "NOT use it". But these are features designed to be used, and when it doesn't make sense in many cases, it probably means it's badly thought out.

>That seems like something that shouldn't be happening, assuming your hands were clean? It doesn't happen on mine.

Good for you for having the most sanitary hand in the world. For the rest of actual human beings, everyone knows that touching any glass surface leaves smudge, not just computers. I'm fine with logical arguments but please don't deny what everyone knows as fact, because that doesn't fly, and brings credibility of the rest of your arguments down to zero.
Why would you suggest someone investigating crypto for the first time use the NSA's lightweight cipher? That's a really weird recommendation.
No, I'm just implementing code that signs and verifies PDF digital signatures for compliance with EU regulations. I'm not dealing with HSMs, or even the PKIX infrastructure other than verifying a certificate is valid according to Adobe/ETSI and generating/checking signatures. The certificate issuers need to provide the CRLs and OCSP responders/responses.
Depends on the content. I like Patreon-style for YouTube, and that also occasionally fits with other things. I would also subscribe to a good source of news, though I haven't found one that qualifies as such yet.
I should clarify that I meant that Apple is abandoning the tech, not the customers.
Go isn't a research project.

Never said it was.

It's more a manifesto on programming philosophy born of "old man rage" in language form.

I suspect this has something to do with why I like it so much!
it wouldn't be that expensive to buy them

I hope you are taking into consideration the capital gains tax when it comes to the difference between strike price and the current fair market value of the stock. If a company is growing fast or takes on money, this can change alot in even a year.

The IRS doesn't care that you may not be able to actually recognize that gain because you cannot actually sell the stock, it's considered a gain nonetheless and you will owe tax on it.

I have been in a situation where the FMV of my stock changed by 10x in the span of a year and by the time I could have actually bought any stock the tax bill would have bankrupted me.
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this is a non-argument and doesn't address the point made by the post you're responding to.

certainly engineering students are just as free to binge drink and party for 4 years and not learn anything. a fuck up who drops out of their engineering degree program and defaults on their student loans is just as much of a fuck up as someone who did the same while studying literary criticism.
Well, I'm not complaining - pretty much everyone I know is in tech, and those jobs are only here for one reason.