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You honestly believe that Google don't look out for their bottom line either?

I did not mention Google, nor any other company (other than Apple) for that matter. Instead I used the words 'a commercial interest' to indicate this goes for _any_ company which exists to make money - and that means nearly every company in existence.

But, to get back to your Google example, of course Google looks out for their bottom line. It just so happens that Google is not nearly as aggressive in herding their users into fenced corrals as Apple is. Google moves fast and often discontinues services so it is unwise to base your (company's) future on the existence of any specific Google service. Fortunately Google generally makes it easy to get data out of their services so a viable exit strategy is usually feasible. Apple is not that fast a mover which also implies they don't discontinue services at the rate at which Google does. Where Apple fails miserably is in their support for migrating data out of their services. This, again, fits the description I gave at the start of this sub-thread: Apple wants to raise the cost of leaving their services.
He wasn't a British citizen and he's no longer with us. I understand the point you're trying to make, but certainly you can find an better example.
Well, @fantasai, who should probably know, says "I think we never really decided on that": https://twitter.com/DasSurma/status/815910270023430144
That's not how it works. Companies do lobbying at every level of government all the time.

It speaks more about you than anything else the fact that you find it awful when it's about a very vocal political cause, yet you probably don't consider that in order for companies to build infrastructure, modify the law for things that benefit them economically, and so on, there's indeed a high level of political participation.
That's actually a interesting point - I wonder if it's possible to license the Thunderbolt tech in some way, and have it hooked up to the ARM Chip; something like what Asus does to give AMD thunderbolt: http://www.eteknix.com/asus-give-am3-boards-thunderbolt-supp...

Saying that - and I hope someone corrects me here if I'm wrong, I was under the impression that Apple & Intel jointly created Thunderbolt (or perhaps it is an Intel only tech), which means Apple may have some sway here.

Just thinking about it more - Thunderbolt is just a protocol driven over USB-C now, so I'm fairly certain USB (3/C) might eventually be able to cover everything Thunderbolt does, or apple takes their "lightning" protocol to replace Thunderbolt, and use that over USB instead of Thunderbolt over USB.

Just musing but it is a very under appreciated aspect to all of this as well!
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they are impressively efficient on a perf/watt basis

Is that true? I thought people were trying out ARM rack servers because of the power efficiency vs perf.
BRK.B shares currently trade around US$160ish/share. The dividend equivalent to selling even a single share would incur $24 in taxes (15%), and the transaction fee for a discount broker is around $7 or $8. So unless the shares have tripled since you bought them, which would have had to have been in 2003 or prior, you're coming out ahead in the US after only one share (savings on long-term capital gains taxes exceed the transaction fee cost). If you sell two shares at a time, it gets you back to 1997.

Yes, tax-advantaged accounts are a different question, but Berkshire can't pay a dividend to just "the people who need money in a tax-advantaged account". If you want a smaller impact from fees, make fewer, larger transactions.

It's not like this requires particularly large sums. At 7 shares per transaction you're already under the industry average stock index fund expense ratio (0.76%), and unlike those funds, that's a cost that's incurred once on just the shares you sell, not annually on your whole investment. People pay higher (relative) fees to withdraw cash from an ATM.
Even better, a car that belonged to John von Neumann's ghost.
Think Stats (http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-stats-2e/) and the follow-up Think Bayes are awesome if you're a coder. https://bblais.github.io/statistical-inference-for-everyone-... is a complete rethink of how basic statistics should be taught and is excellent as well.
There is a demo :) you can check it out at https://parale.la/demo/1, it's linked in the nav bar.
Ask HN: How to invest money as an immigrant?
I'm a Sr. Manager on a H1-B visa. I've been on this visa for 12 years now. My green card has been in process for the last 7 years (huge backlog due to my nationality). I own a house here which is my only debt. I have about $300k in cash and roughly $240k in investments (mostly mutual funds). How would you invest the cash if you were me? Some options I have considered are 1) Use about $200k to pay off the house ($420k left) 2) Invest in a Vanguard 2045 fund 3) Buy a rental property. Given my visa status, #2 seems like a safe option but I don't want to lose all my savings if the market were to tank. Looking for options at this point.
Apple University is one of the things Jobs set up to try and keep Apple fresh:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/technology/-inside-apples...

http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/08/codifying-asymmetry-how-app...
Please, describe to me how someone can convey pure unadulterated facts in language, without imposing an "interpretation" on them.

I've addressed this elsewhere, but there is definitely cases where this can be done.

No, Tom Cruise is not moving to Buffalo, Missouri[1].

No, there is no attempt by lawmakers to legislate the disposal of unused semen[2].

Etc, etc. Some of these are satire, but some are just complete deliberate fakes.

This is a different class of problem to "OMG Hillary is a Nazi/OMG Trump bought Pizza" opinion spam.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/celebrity-moving-small-towns/

[2] http://www.snopes.com/unused-semen-bill/
I'm not defending it as a model. I think python's approach to fork & thread interaction, which is to punt on it completely while exposing both to end users, is pretty broken.
I don't see how he is an authoritarian. He's been operating in the frame of the constitution so far, he's not in favor of the government managing everybody's life.

Real fascist governments usually don't believe in free market, in capitalism or in small government in general. He's also very isolationist, clearly not a trait of fascism.

We can find a lot of issues with Trump and what he's doing, but calling it "fascist" or "literally Hitler" doesn't help. When we call everything "fascist" the word loses its meaning. The Left has been calling every single Republican president/candidate a "fascist" for the past 2 decades.
If you've got a bunch of ordered categories, like "bad", "okay" and "good", the category in the middle. (So if humans can have 0, 1 or 2 legs, then 1 would be at the center.)
All this effort to claim possession over something. Imagine if all the effort regarding possession and wealth were used to make something actually useful. What a waste.
Why Frog Tongues Are So Sticky
Sounds a lot like the "everyone hates their hair". Like, people with blonde wants to be red, curly to straight, and so forth.
A Webpack plugin for wiring up prefetch – supports async chunks
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Your political posturing is considered by the gatekeepers of the industry to harm the industry. Fine by you, but I don't think you'll get nor deserve any sympathy.
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My comment is more to point out the hypocrisy of having a war on drugs but allowing shitty chemicals in the things we use.

But I'm glad the comment was not deleted and I forgive the downvoters.
Yep, have used these several times. They work very well.
This is a very interesting part: [0]

>The liability of Defendants was established by uncontradicted evidence presented by ZeniMax, including (i) the breakthrough in VR technology occurred in March 2012 at id Software through the research efforts of our former employee John Carmack (work that ZeniMax owns) before we ever had contact with the other defendants; (ii) we shared this VR technology with the defendants under a non-disclosure agreement that expressly stated all the technology was owned by ZeniMax; (iii) the four founders of Oculus had no expertise or even backgrounds in VR—other than Palmer Luckey who could not code the software that was the key to solving the issues of VR; (iv) there was a documented stream of computer code and other technical assistance flowing from ZeniMax to Oculus over the next 6 months; (v) Oculus in writing acknowledged getting critical source code from ZeniMax; (vi) Carmack intentionally destroyed data on his computer after he got notice of this litigation and right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive—and data on other Oculus computers and USB storage devices were similarly deleted (as determined by a court-appointed, independent expert in computer forensics); (vii) when he quit id Software, Carmack admitted he secretly downloaded and stole over 10,000 documents from ZeniMax on a USB storage device, as well as the entire source code to RAGE and the id tech® 5 engine —which Carmack uploaded to his Oculus computer; (viii) Carmack filed an affidavit which the court's expert said was false in denying the destruction of evidence; and (ix) Facebook's lawyers made representations to the court about those same Oculus computers which the court's expert said were inaccurate. Oculus’ response in this case that it didn’t use any code or other assistance it received from ZeniMax was not credible, and is contradicted by the testimony of Oculus programmers (who admitted cutting and pasting ZeniMax code into the Oculus SDK), as well as by expert testimony.

[0] http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/1/14478258/zenimax-oculus-inju...
It really wouldn't have been that hard to write your opinion in a way that doesn't disparage the character of the person (that you don't really know) that you're responding to.

There's no reason to hide behind a new account other than to be an asshole.
Open Source Democrats
Ask HN: Anybody here uses an iPad Pro as a personal device?
Fellow hackers,
I am thinking of buying an used ipad pro to replace my scattered handwritten notes and hopes of using them as a portable device that I can use for meetings and discussions where I dont need to actively code.

Anybody here use IPad Pro (wih Apple Pencil) in any good usecases?
Thank you for posting that article. Well worth the read.
I remember when I was a kid, I was allowed to roam and go on adventures. Especially at my grandma's house because she was next to the woods.

I thought I went so far. I thought I was so adventurous. Turns out the max I ever dared go was about 1km. Maaaaybe 2km. The distances that used to look so far and adventurous, don't even feel like a walk anymore.

Maybe that was just me, but it sounds like even if you give kids freedom to go wherever, they won't really roam that far. So maybe it's pretty safe to give them that freedom? They'll use it age appropriately.

By the time I would have roamed further than the 1 or 2 kilometers, I had discovered books and internet and computers and I was like "lol why would I leave the living room?"
Reuters is certainly not nearly "unbiased". It may be better than US partisan news sources in covering US events, but their biases show elsewhere. E.g. when a terrorist attack by vehicle happened in Israel, Reuters reported it as "Palestinian dies in ramming attack"[1]. The Palestinian who died was the terrorist, but Reuters found that unimportant to mention. Another instance is where Reuters invented a quote from Israel officials out of the blue [2]. There are more examples of this, I just took first two I had at hand. Reuters relies on local freelancers and local reporting bureaus, and some of them fall way short of their proclaimed standards.

[1] http://honestreporting.com/reuters-headline-palestinian-car-...
[2] http://honestreporting.com/reuters-turns-rocket-fire-into-fi...
yes, we have already filled junior positions
github.com/facebookgo/generics
Gil Tene has an entire talk about this point called "How NOT to measure latency" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU). In many circumstances, a web service (either server or client) has large numbers of dependencies, so a user only has to hit 95th-percentile latency for one dependency to have their overall latency significantly hurt. In other words, users may encounter the "rare" bad case on a majority of requests. Thus, even higher percentiles should be tightly controlled in order to truly keep a web service's overall latency under control.
Everyone has been doing that forever. The petrol engineer simply competes with the horse feed industry.
I've always been quite proud of my ability to acquire at least a moderate mastery of most software (I can use both vi and emacs!), but I never managed this with AfterEffects. I don't know what it was, but I always seemed to end up in some interminable state that I could never get back out of without quitting the whole damn thing, or I could never make the timeline behave itself (I never had this problem with Flash), or... it was just endless misery for me.

I very much admire people who are adept with it, and sometimes when I watch the opening sequences in films, or certain types of adverts on television, I can even imagine how they might have achieved it with AE - but for me it was a great relief when I never had to use the damn thing again.

(I spent about a year maintaining a proprietary ActionScript library that would render AfterEffects animations - not dissimilar to Lottie, in fact, except almost certainly a whole lot worse, especially the bits I wrote given that there are probably some horses who understand AE better than I did.)
If you are not a car person and have always wondered what all the fuss is about watch some of the petrolicious youtube videos. They always have really interesting interviews with the owner about what their car means to them. The fact it's all meticulously filmed makes for fascinating viewing.
AE's primary duty is motion graphics.
New Home for Octopus Documentation
That's not true. The dossier exists. It was prepared by a respected former intelligence officer. It was ordered by Jeb Bush's campaign. None of these facts are in disrepute. And the vast majority of news reports accurately stated that the contents of the dossier cannot be verified. It's miles more credible than the stories found on fake news sites.
There's maybe just too much stuff required in user namespace? We were able to address many problems including this one when we switched to boot-clj
Leaked video of Boston Dynamics' latest robot, Handle
"Of the four patients, all of whom had been completely locked in for years, three said they were happy and loved to live. The fourth, a 24-year-old woman who had rapid onset of the disease, was not asked because her parents feared she was in a delicate mental state, MIT Technology Review reports."
Software is no more political that 2 + 2 = 4, it's just computation applied.

If we start dragging politics into it we will destroy things like open source that exist only because anyone can anonymously contribute without their race/religion/politics coming up.
On the auction page you can just hit "View Older" at the bottom as many times as you'd like. The Search option at the top lets you find all their old auctions. One thing I really like about bring a trailer is they keep the bid history available so you can get a much better feel for real market value compared to some like looking up blue book.
It's a secure man who is comfortable storing his automotive catalogs in a Kotex box.
That cough medicine doesn't taste that bad. If you have to use "that". It's the thing.
Github itself is not open source. The irony.
Is there anything you are personally doing?
The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era
Your wish is our command; the journal now has an RSS feed :)
http://programming-journal.org/feed.rss

Kind regards, Tim
and likely half a million to a million depending on how original it is
Flipping out – a guide for international founders considering a “US flip”
Some words for international founders considering raising VC funding and considering flipping their company to the US.
I'm doing exactly what I said in my last sentence. I'm committing to a local long term effort to find common ground with those around me. I'm also under no illusions that it will happen quickly.
When I was 6 or 7 years old, during the summers every morning my mom would give me $1.25, and I would get on my bike and ride to the public pool with my friends that was about 5 miles away in the center of our small town. We'd swim all day and go to the Burgerville for lunch where I could get a wonderfully tasty cheeseburger with fries and coke for my $1.25. Finally I had to be home by dinner.

If we didn't go swimming, there was a 40 acre woods/orchard behind our houses and we would search it for anything exciting, like bugs, squirrels or wild animals.

When I turned 8 we moved out into the country and I had to walk a few miles just to get to a friends house. We'd usually take our air rifles and go try to shoot things. By the time I was 10 most of us had our own motorcycles and parents who would let us borrow their shotguns for some real fun.

This was in the 1970s.
I wonder though whether users really want lots of fancy animations. Our apps have way too many that add absolutely nothing to the usability, and in fact take away from it as you have to wait until things are done sliding around the screen. It's not that some animation is a bad thing, but give people such easy ways to make everything move and dance and you wind up with a modern version of 1990's websites. Of course it's just a tool in the end, but knowing our design teams, we will get 5X more bouncy and 1/5 the usefulness.
Surely, Trump mouthing off couple of guys from White House press corps makes US media as tightly state-controlled as in Russia and Iran. How does it even make sense? Media environment in US is nowhere nearly similar to Russia or Iran, and is not "becoming" anything like it, regardless of what Trump tweets. If Trump nationalizes CNN or bans access to NYT website, then it would be one small step towards where Russia and Iran is. That kind of exaggeration is exactly why it is so hard to take many MSM outlets seriously.
The key word there is "trying". ARM servers have had a tough time gaining traction in no small part because the hoped for power efficiency gains have not been realized.
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Apple would have them by the plums at least for a little while.
I have two open source projects, one is 4 years old, and the other is about a year old.

I pushed them out to github as soon as they were useful. I waited to put a license until I was sure I would be able to support them and they were feature complete enough.