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> I'd argue that 95% of all Word users only use a tiny fraction of what the product can do and if they had just written that part, it wouldn't need to be that insane amount of code.

I think you'd be surprised.

Insert a graph into Word, now all of a sudden you need OLE so that when the underlying data changes the graph is automatically updated, axis are renumbered properly, the legend is in place, etc.

Insert a picture. Now it needs a caption. How does that picture flow with the rest of the text?

Just looking at the "Insert" tab in Word, I've used:

1. Page Break
2. Cover Page
3. Tables
4. Pictures
5. Shapes.
6. Smart Art
7. Chart
8. Links
9. Bookmarks
10. Cross-references
11. Comments
12. Header, footer, page numbering
13. Drop Caps
14. Interacting with Signature Lines
15. Date & Time
16. Symbols
17. Equations

That is 70% of the features of that one tab.

Feature code is expensive, it costs to write, and it has a heavy cost to maintain. It rarely gets written unless there is a demonstrated customer need for it.

There have been a lot of competing word processors over the years that pop up with just a minimal set of features, some of them even had Word support. These word processors end up being discarded the second someone comes across a feature it doesn't have, they need, and that Word does have.

Excel is even more this way. Look at a power user of Excel, a huge % of the program is exercised on any given day. Some groups use more of the numerical abilities, but a huge number of features are going to get exercised by a user on any given day.

> I think his point might have been that society is on this path with ridiculous software size, complexity, bloat...etc.

Maybe. But what is bloat? Apps written in Electron are easier to maintain and update despite the underlying platform being huge. I'd say it is because Electron solves a lot of small problems for you, but perhaps it is also because people give up on some things. Electron apps don't have the theming support that Winamp did, but adding real time streaming support for audio/video takes months instead of years, and has become table stakes in the modern world instead of an amazing differentiator.

I'm not really sure where I stand on all this anymore. :)
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Yet traffic means that you can, in practice, do none of these.
All of this rings true, but I would also add that there are still places in 2017 where the parenting culture hasn't devolved into a "success"-at -any-cost scenario. You don't necessarily need to go far afield to find these communities, but you are less likely to find them within the crucible of i.e. Silicon Valley or other similarly configured places.

A few factors which I think might give rise to these less "insane" environments:

- A community whose population is employed in a diverse set of occupations.

- A community with welcoming shared public outdoor spaces where unplanned joint activities can occur. This can be in an urban environment, no forest needed.

There will certainly be trade-offs with these places (maybe older school facilities, lower average SAT scores) but for some that might be worth a childhood and parenthood without the additional anxiety that the environment you describe creates.
Unfortunately, your comment is slightly out of that context. Some folks on HN read the comments before the article.
A popular libertarian maxim is "Your rights end where my rights begin." This is usually ignored in discussions about unaccounted for externalities like pollution. Why do you have the right to pollute my (our) air with your automobile?
I don't have any kids, but I still got rid of the TV. Passive, environmental entertainment is problematic. If you had a bowl of chocolate on your desk, it's easier to snack on them during the day - the same with media distractions.

Now, anything I watch is something I specifically seek out - pull, not push.

I do the same with video games, and I choose games that are more exiting, as opposed to long slogs - fixed-level/single-player FPS, or fixed length multiplayer sessions, as opposed to "stat-building" games, or candy-crunch "physiological manipulators".
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Would the breach appear worse if her degree was in CS or not? Seems the HN community is trying to correlate her degree to the breach and this is virtually impossible. Her MFA did not cause the breach nor is their an identifiable correlation.
That is most likely because Magenta now is a Tensorflow project, talk about communication inside the same company!

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/
Or even better: it will drive off to pick up random people in an Uber/Lyft scenario, so your car makes you a small amount of money while you're working by itself.
Absolutely! I really think that should be payed forward as well, I'd love to do the same with my projects since they lean heavily on other work, but ultimately you have to become sustainable first or there isn't much to give back.

The only alternative is to do the typical VC route, have some startup that makes zero revenue and just hacks on OSS, which is a bigger drain on the economy and I don't believe produces better work anyway.
> How much of this is just paranoia about "too much screen time" but reframed for a 21st century approach?

All of it. An entire generation raised glued to the TV is now flipping out about screen time. It would be funny if I didn’t have to deal with other parents all the time.
The IRS says companies must place a fair market value on free parking they provide, and must report as income any value of free parking in excess of $255/month. Compliance with this reg is likely minimal.

It seems to me if I have to drive to a specific location to perform a job-task, the expense of getting there and parking there is a deductible business expense. This is true as long as you are not regularly commuting to a place of business.

Once you start regularly commuting, the cost of the commute is no longer a deductible business expense. And if you are being given a place to park worth more than ~$10/day you're supposed to pay full load of taxes on that "income".

So, if for example, you regularly work from home, you can deduct the cost of going into the office.

That's a huge subsidy for working from home at least 50% of the time which this report totally ignores.

To claim that not taxing as income the first $10/day in parking value provided as a fringe benefit is a $7b tax subsidy seems a bit of a stretch. The company also likely provides air conditioning in the office, do we tax that as income too? To say nothing of food catering, onsite gym, etc.

I read the actual report linked in the article and IMO it comes off as somewhere between "progressive money-grab" to "bat-shit crazy."

The reality is the IRS has a long-standing "don't ask don't tell" policy around all kinds of benefits that companies provide employees which are "technically gross income" but in practice are never actuallly counted as such. A common example is the value of frequent flier miles. Here's a paper on the subject: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

Referenced in that is another paper called "Defining Income" which seems to be the definitive paper on this topic? https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=0370821220680890...
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If the objective is to simulate general intelligence then you want to copy the natural one as closely as possible. Simulating is easier than inventing.
I wonder how this will affect YouTube playlists, though.
The HN anti-crypto trigger finger is a little too itchy it seems
On the date he wrote the paper, he was a philosopher ;-)

If a philosopher has a substantive objection to Deutsch's analysis, I will take it seriously - just as seriously as if it were made by a physicist.
I recently switched from Dropbox to Google Drive (unlimited storage is nice) to consolidate all my cloud files (had an epiphany that iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and AWS were just too many cloud storages to pay for) and I miss dropbox's sync tool already. Was a nice quality product and I will miss it.
Take a peak at https://www.taxjar.com/
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> Free parking should be reported as income

I'm trying to figure out the mental somersaults it has to take for this to seem reasonable to you.

The natural state, empty field, nothing there. I can park there. For Free.

Unnatural state, roads and buildings. My ability to park has been taken. I've had value taken from me. I'm at a negative.

Government / businesses grant the right to park in some places. I'm at less of a negative but still negative of the natural state. I don't see how that's possibly putting me at a positive "income"?
> the government is subsidizing commuters to drive themselves to work instead of carpooling or taking mass transit or walking or biking or working from home.

I would imagine in the majority of scenarios this is a false choice. There simply is no reasonable alternative. Our city planning was piss poor and thought it was a good idea to emulate Atlanta when it comes to road building (i.e. build them wherever the hell, with no rhyme or reason). Biking: not an option. Working from home? If I were to be so lucky.

Second, not much thought was given to the economic impact of those commuters.
I suspect there will be a few hackers who do this to avoid paying SF/ SF Bay prices while doing their internships.
Especially as more "No motor home parking" signs go up.
Subsidies go into public transit, but for a reason. Even if you drive and never use public transportation you benefit from it by having freer movement in the roads. The whole point isn't that such a subsidy exists, it's asking whether it's a subsidy we actually want to be making. Additionally, it's not surprising that it makes up a large portion of city budgets, because city governments have the most narrow and local focus of any other in America. They're often not even on the level of county government, let alone state government.
Yeah, I should have been clearer, I guess I think that for a community service having a magazine about "fighting the stigma about being sick" and depression, etc is really powerful and cool. Most places do nothing or support a charity (passively).
Here's a list [1]. I count 131 syscalls. Most of them are related to hardware (PCI, timers, CPU, framebuffer), a bunch are related to logging/tracing. There's a small set that address kernel "objects" (processes, ports etc.).

[1] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/zircon/blob/master/system/...
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Would be cheaper to slowly drive around congested areas.
I think you can turn webgl off or disable extensions and use the addon CanvasBlocker for that until the Tor Uplift project gets completed.
Drivers don't pay the full cost of maintaining the roads, so if it's a question of which system we should subsidize, I'd rather subsidize mass transit. It has less environmental impact and takes up less space.

If it's cheaper too, that'd be great.
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Spoken like someone completely oblivious to the costs they're offloading onto everyone else. The liberty of people who want to breathe clean air, walk down streets that aren't noise- and fume-choked hellscapes, or who don't want to pay for your subsidies, the police & EMTs to show up & clean up your car wrecks - what of their liberty? It's a simple concept.
how do you do #2? I can't find it? For example, I want Facebook to always open in my "Facebook" container.

EDIT: I guess I just had to ask then my brain figured it out. :) Open the page in the container you want, right click the extension icon and choose "Always open in this container"
They're probably referring to outdoors, posters, physical ads, physically located in SF.
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That's a good counter example, but doesn't address the other advantages of third party solutions like message durability, atomicity, and guaranteed completion. If the email only ever exists in the memory of the executing process, it can be easily lost during server restart for example.
Equifax's Chief security officer may have had a lack of knowledge in the domain she was hired for(A very important role).

They ignored security warnings from Apache and now we have the fallout from the breach. So did the CSO's lack of security knowledge aide in the breach? If so that is on Equifax for hiring her into that role.
Interesting thought, You should email Matt, I'm sure he would have a response that he would put in his column.
> information is information

It's information, but not worthwhile information.

> It doesnt take a profound leap in logic that the optimizer may have unfolded everything and realized certain code was not going to change the state of the program, thus removed it. Maybe it didnt, but then again maybe it did.

Prove it. This article has had a ton of traffic. If you see the thing that everyone missed, a lot of people will be very impressed with you.
Yeah, for navigation Google Maps is hard to beat.

Everything else I strongly prefer OSM though: their maps are (at least around here) way better, esp. if you aren't driving, they are offline, the apps are less laggy, ...
This actually happens surprisingly often in 6502 code, because unconditional branches always take three bytes, unlike conditional jumps which take two bytes. So if the value of some condition flags are known to be constant (e.g. ORing with a nonzero constant always clears the zero flag) it saves a byte to use an always-true conditional jump in place of an unconditional jump.
EFF's Privacy Badger extension [0] should help a little, but if you really need to avoid tracking you'll need something more like Tor.

[0]https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
I've pretty much stopped going to CNN because of this. I have managed to block a lot of this video by using privacy badger and blocking the underlying CDNs where it is played from. However, I've never been able to block CNN effectively, so I've just given up on them.
Good though. You've drawn the line, and kept with it. My privacy is worth more than a sandwich every few months.
You could open five tabs of Facebook, and you'd probably want each one to share its container with the four others unless you specifically want it not to.
Let me choose whether to click on it. Or let that part of the gif format die altogether.
Yep, we need progress and good urban planning. Some places (like the Netherlands) have embraced cycling, for example, because of its many benefits. There's lots of good info about this particular case study over at Wikipedia[1], and also check out the recent NYT article[2]. Here's a good quote:

> More important for the nation’s bottom line, the country’s preference for the bicycle could save its economy $23 billion each year, according to a recent study done at Utrecht University and published in the American Journal of Public Health. The study suggested that the Netherlands’ vigorous cycling habits prevented 6,500 premature deaths each year.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_in_the_Netherlands

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/europe/bicycling-ut...
> as rider's fares typically pay for less than half the cost of running the bus/subway/light rail system.

as drivers pay for none of the cost of maintaining the roads.
Are you taking pre-orders for this?!

On a more serious note, this just sounds awesome and could work towards workforce mobility as well. Unfortunately, people commuting in RVs will probably make traffic a lot worse.
I don't even ask for email.. how can I spam? :/
There is no "subscription" on the website.
Many small businesses would not be able to operate/operate profitably without automobiles.
How do you figure things were misjudged?

There's a fixed pool of IP Addresses that can be allocated. When that allocation pool runs out, no more can be allocated. Allocation occurs in blocks at a very high level and then at subsequent levels more sub block allocation happens.

The INAN ran out of IPs to hand out. That doesn't mean that all of the IPs have been assigned to physical devices attached to the internet. For example the US Government Agencies have tons of IPs they aren't using but that had been previously allocated to them decades ago and can't be taken back.
File systems are just nosql databases, hierarchical key-value blob stores. There are obviously ton of other ways to model databases that could be used. For the other extreme end I think Oracle DB runs quite happily on raw disks, or at least did so at some point.

Of course I'm not sure if parent was meaning files as a way to structure/store data (having that hierarchical blobstore) or as a way to access data (something you `open`, `read`, `seek` etc), as they are slightly different things.

For a more real world example, take a look how mainframes, especially AS400 (edit: meant System/360 successors), managed data. At least afaik they fundamentally work on a more structured level.
I was talking about this with a friend last night, and I'm very surprised that no one in the media has even mentioned a technology like ultrawideband through-wall imaging (https://ll.mit.edu/mission/space/Real-time%20Through-wall%20...). I suspect that this or something similar is what was being attempted.
I'm unconvinced. It seems like the allure of the mountains is based on the people self-selecting they want that kind of lifestyle. Given the athleticism / outdoorsmanship of the general population, I have a hard time believing these proclivities are universal.
We've been using Knockout.js at my company for the last ~4 years but we're in the process of switching over to Vue.js, or at least use it for new projects.
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Yes, they do. Highways are largely maintained through the gas tax.
> How is TV better than an iPad? I mean, seriously? At least with an iPad there's a plethora of different apps, and a good percentage of them will be more enlightening than watching the ever diminishing quality of TV these days.

Kids are all.. different? What he describes was surprisingly the same for my 6 year old. Tablets cause focus and aggression issues with him. Taking away tablet access has done wonders for our household.

Your mileage may vary.
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You're correct but this tidbit also exposes the article's limited scope. It's sweeping the cost of public transportation under the rug and then providing unsubstantiated opinion on the "adverse impact" of the thing the author doesn't like.

To be clear I'm not arguing for or against parking or public transportation. But I do think we should be forming policies with more data and less opinion.
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Have to admit, this definitely worries me. As does the bipartisan disdain for things like freedom of speech, privacy, etc. The fact the media don't seem to defend these things any more (nor the internet in general) makes it even worse.
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It's not just about skills, but also about knowing what problems to solve and being in the position to solve them. I wonder if we can side-step having to do waste work in the latter cases.
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> Businesses choose in their own self interest.

Thus if it's in their interest to lobby for a tax code with distortative effects, they will.
The difference is that cars have way more externalities than transit does. Pollution, noise, danger to others, space taken, cars are way worse at all of these.

Cities quite rationally want people to walk and use transit more, because those modes fit the fabric of a city better. Of course you'll still need car trips for some things, but a blanket subsidy like this for something you want less of is nonsense.
That's not quite the same thing. What you quoted is referring to the IRS tax exemption for the first $255 per month spent on approved commuting costs (parking and mass transit).

What mgreg refers to is the direct money that is used to fund/subsidize the cost of operating bus/train networks in urban areas. The cost of those tickets are less than they would be without the subsidies.

These are two totally separate things.
I really like spaCy's design of throwing out old research and sticking with the best current methods, rather than leaving a dozen options to confuse newcomers.

Having options is nice, but at least mark/default to the recommended ones.
It's true that we tax some sorts of "implicit income" but not others.

Another example, which many people find very strange: taxing homeowners for their implicit rental income:

Imagine Person A owns a house and lives in it. Person B owns one house, which he rents to someone else, and lives in a rented apartment. Person B has rental income and pays tax on it. Person A does not receive rental income (from himself) and therefore pays no equivalent tax (and also receives other tax preferences). In some ways, this appears to be inequitable. But to many people, it would be odd to tax a transaction that never explicitly happened (A only "paid himself rent" implicitly).

So a case can be made for taxing all sorts of things, some of which seem very odd to many/most people. Employer-provided parking will probably remain untaxed, just like employer-provided food often is.
> My podcast app has sound modulation and processing options built in to tailor the sound to my tastes and needs, including speed up, voice level adjustment and dead-air 'vocal pause' elimination in real-time, all on-device and adjustable at my fingertips.

Everything short of the vocal pause stuff an old Sansa will do for you, running a tiny embedded C based runtime.

> These things have become so everyday that we hardly notice most of them, but without serious on-device processing power, some of which would have been beyond $10k workstations just 15 years ago, none of this would be possible.

The modern photo and video stuff is super cool and uses a ton of processing power. Likewise for high quality video streaming, decompressing is hard work, though often offloaded to HW these days.

Everything else my desktop of 15 years ago handled just fine, with 256MB of RAM.

Heck my smartphone in 2006 with 64MB of RAM did most of this stuff.

The one thing that has remained constant across a decade of smart phone development is the Pandora app getting forced closed all the time.
"What if I don't want to follow those rules?"

Same as if you don't want to follow any other rules laid down by your job.

"What if instead, I want to negotiate my own work contract?"

Nobody's saying you can't do that.

"If a union comes in, I have no option. I do not want other people voting on my contract."

You don't have any evidence of that.

"This is why I will always fight the establishment of a union in the tech industry. I do not want to be governed by the union rules, so I am not going to allow this stuff to be established in the first place."

So because you think you're a snowflake, you don't want things to improve for other people.
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I would bet a lot of money that engineers testing model after model in a state of flow, without any concern for biological validity, will yield a better result than any biologically inspired thing will. Time efficiency is also an important factor here. The model that will win is the one that is first to "market" (academic paper).
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That's absurd. There's literally no reason for Apple Legal to lie. If Apple Legal was lying about the downsides of GPLv3, then that means there's no reason why Apple would care about software being GPLv3, which means there's no incentive to try and convince people to stop using it!

Also, it's not like Apple Legal is telling anyone outside the company about this. Apple's not releasing any public statements asking people not to use GPLv3. So how exactly are they supposed to be discouraging its use when the people using it don't know what Apple Legal thinks about it?