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I'd say Apple is partially to blame for the replacement parts market being shady, for three reasons:

1. You can't get genuine Apple replacement parts in such a way that the end-consumer can actually verify they are not counterfeits.

2. Apple charges an exorbitant brand premium for genuine Apple products.

3. Apple doesn't believe that unapproved persons are capable of repairing its devices correctly.

If one could order a replacement battery from Apple, at a price that approaches the actual cost of a genuine replacement battery, plus the actual cost of QA, plus the actual cost of splitting off single units from the batch and shipping them, most would never need to bother with sketchy third-party batteries. You could just buy an Apple battery, and either DIY replace it, or take it to an electronics repair-person that you trust.

So it is Apple making things bad. By refusing to recognize consumer right to repair at all, it is automatically excluding the possibility that there is a difference between a shoddy home-repair, and one that would otherwise meet Apple's repair standards, if only it had been performed by an Apple-blessed individual.

A shop that values its reputation would almost certainly offer customers the choice of OEM-original replacement parts, or brands known by them to be good, such as iFixit parts, if it could. As it is now, the only OEM-originals they can get, come from devices purchased new for the explicit purpose of dissassembly for parts, and broken, unrepairable devices that still have some good parts in them. That pushes the prices up.
I really hope they both implode.

The blitzscaling strategy might in fact work but it would effectively be an end to democracy. We would basically have a marketplace of ALL monopolies.

It just doesn't scale.
Stock based compensation doesn't affect cash flow.
It's newly issued stock granted to employees.

I'm not sure when the accounting laws changed to include SBC (probably post-financial crisis), but it's weird to include it in an income statement as if it was a cash expense. You can find articles from accounting experts arguing both ways if you are curious.

e.g. http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2014/02/stock-based-empl...
What? All of these products probably have a miles long changelog.

I mean, I can assume you don't care for the change, but it's there. Streetview was launched in 2007.
I did the equivalent for almost 10 years. (Lived in Massachusetts; worked in New Hampshire.) But I owned a house I liked and it didn't make sense to move.
> among my friends we all stopped using Uber (unless we really have to). It simply became way too expensive.

What's been the alternative? Regular taxis? Aren't they just as expensive?
> That paper can in some way help people make an informed decision but we live in a finite world and it doesn't, shouldn't and can't tell them how to make the trade offs.

^ Your comment sounds very much like my own (below), so I don't know what the disagreement is.

> Science can help us figure out how our decisions will affect society. What society optimizes for is up for political discourse.
Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise business for $10.7B
“Duck-themed multi-user virtual spaces in WebVR”
Not so curious. When the colour licence was introduced, a colour TV was an expensive luxury, and a 12" b&w TV was standard fare for impoverished students. I think the relative differential has increased over the years as students came to rely on the portable telly being the cheap option.

At the same time as introducing the colour licence, they abolished the radio licence.

btw, as you have to sign in to view iPlayer these days - annoyingly even for radio, I am sure they can detect when people use it. It's not even a bit challenging. :)
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"The TV license is an admittedly odd way of funding a state broadcaster, but it works well enough that nobody has bothered to change it."

I think the concept of the license is rather alien to people in countries where all civic amenities are subject to the whims of democracy and the government. This is very much not true of many things in the UK (the BBC, the Army, numerous universities and schools, guilds and societies) which would formally exist even if the government were to disappear.

I know you probably know all this, so this is really for everyone else's benefit.. but the BBC's entire basis is defined by a Royal Charter which is independent of politics. If the government of the day (or, say, a Trump-esque character) hates the BBC, they can't suddenly defund or destroy it. This is why we do not pay for it in a tax (which the government could adjust) but via a license defined by Royal Charter.

I think the British way of having government merely being one more institution amongst many (rather than the institution) is a rather powerful advantage.
> Made for an interesting few years.

Wow, didn’t know that. Which years are we talking about, roughly?
A very important caveat: Clojure compilation is not side-effect free. If you are generating the JVM equivalent of a binary (excluding the assumption of stuff like GraalVM) i.e. a überjar, you are going to have a bad day if your code does stuff like edit configuration files, call a JSON API etc. The code would run during the compilation stage. Something to take note of.
Happy to help! I've been through a similar process on pricing with my startup so I completely understand the difficulty.

Makes sense on freemium--I think it's good to first make sure you can satisfy users at whatever price point is sustainable and then later you can open up the floodgates via freemium when you're ready for the volume.
I agree with this, but I think the bigger problem with "myths lists" is that they're condescending. Even when written dispassionately, they implicitly leap out of the gate with "everyone is wrong, including you, reader, and I am going to drop my wisdom on you."

I can't find it now, but there was a great comment on a previous "falsehoods" post about how the only compelling reason to frame content this way is to get clicks and drive engagement through contention and disagreement, and that the world would simply be a better place if the tone was more in line with "here are some super interesting cases you may not have thought of when you do X". See https://xkcd.com/1053/ for a similar sentiment.
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With collaboration like that, we should be able to start our own news media company!
GitLab don't have to worry too much. Their uptime has been fine for us over the course of several years. And it's good that GitLab is around, so that we don't have to worry quite so much about Microsoft/GitHub messing around with the code in international projects. They have a great history[1] of co-operating with nefarious people. (And no, most people do not sign their commits and watering hole attacks are an obvious worry).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20645964
Well, it literally says the message is there even if you swap in a genuine Apple battery yourself.

Whatever, can't lose if you never play Apple's game.
The recent realization by cities that these services are making traffic worse will induce more regulation which will make these services even less viable than they already are.
This is a humor article, right?

(Hell is debugging someone else's LISP macros. I have a very old LISP program, a theorem prover, I've tried to convert from Franz LISP, a Maclisp dialect, to Common LISP. I worked on it years ago. I just can't fix some of the bugs. The original authors of the part that doesn't work right are long dead.)
Let me ask you the question in another way.
What did you do before Uber? Why do you see it as an essential service now?

To answer your question: I bike, use my car or use electrical scooters. I still use Uber but when I really have to (maybe once every two weeks)
Incredibly vague, does a live stream fall afoul of that rule?
Let's say you give me 20 bucks, and I drop it. But only one time.

Does that mean I didn't lose your $20?
I'm not sure if you're joking... but... +8% means 108% stock price. -10% means multiply by 90% == 97.2% or a total price-action of -2.8%

This makes a bigger difference when big drops come into play. A 50% gain is offset by a 33% loss.
That's not what I said. This was a comparison with Dropbox. I was comparing drop box with one drive.
To fix this problem you can set up you CI server to merge into the base branch automatically before running the code (in fact you should probably do this by default for other reasons).

This way your devs won't have to merge, they can just rerun their tests, which should be the same workflow as if your CI config is separate from your codebase.
Pretty sure that Uber/Lyft drivers set their own hours and many of them use many different ride sharing apps.
This is obviously a dumb patent that should have been rejected, but it is at least limited by the clause "wherein the specified connection type is a one-to-one friend connection". Always ignore the abstract and description in a patent and only look at the claims. Another extremely specific claim: "wherein the proscribed content is stored as a trie data structure wherein each letter of a proscribed word is a key."
I didn't mean about the costs for large OS projects but on the requirements. As an example, in my experience, I couldn't build the `semantic` project (https://github.com/github/semantic) with those requirements.
Totally agree, my only wish is the mods would 100% stop editing the original link titles. They should respect the original authors title for starters, and the new title isn’t always better. Whether or not the title is click bait-y, well leave they to the community to decide (aka if the article has merit etc)

It’s also confusing if you've already clicked on it and checked it out - suddenly there is another similar interesting story - oh wait nope it’s the one I already checked out.
Sure, but I was responding to the idea that literally just having a TV means you have to pay it. But ye for most people having a TV is synonymous with having a TV license.

I remember at uni though having to have a TV license, even not having a TV, to watch iPlayer. And there is no such thing as a communal license in halls.
Its the opposite. The TV vans were the parallel construction, they couldn't have worked but they were known to send licensing officers to look through peoples windows during prime TV watching hours.
Satellite TV company arranges to "brick" pirate cards across the US days before the Superbowl: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-27-mn-17728...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-ha...
Fully self-driving cars hit a wall (no pun intended), and that was their only story for eventual profitability. Not surprising.
Is it just me or is 12% growth in adjusted revenue very mediocre for a company taking a loss and trading at Uber’s revenue multiple?
"brooklyn"?!!! i'm guessing that one was the result of a very sparse data set rather than there actually being more than one dog named "brooklyn".
You can break that question into 2 parts.

First, the 3.9B figure appears to represents all RSUs vested up to this point, aka many years worth ("(2) Q2 2019 includes $3.9 billion of stock-based compensation expenses, primarily due to RSU expense recognition in connection with our initial public offering"). That's why its slightly misleading - its many years worth of stock comp for employees which is all getting recognized this quarter (Happens in pretty much all the big tech IPOs)

In general though, its very reasonable to associate that as an expense, which is why GAAP requires it. Where that gets complicated is that its not an immediate cash expense to the company, hence some fudging around with non-GAAP accounting which is seen by some companies.
How do you guarantee privacy?

I know it's open source, but I can't see how I can check that the app store version is an exact copy of the OSS version.

Obviously, I really would not like to see my most intimate thoughts end up for sale at some information broker.
More cars equals more pressure to improve transit and introduce congestion taxes, two things that Uber et. al. are fighting against.

It may as well be trying to hold back the sea. They can do this in the short-term, but not forever.
Twitch has released its own broadcasting software
I created AutoModerator and was an admin for 4 years. I understand the differences intimately, but they're very similar from the affected user's perspective.
Should be more than that, data leaks are everywhere, and anything worth more than the fee for a phone line should have it’s own number.

I wonder if the government wants people to be as paranoid as the people running the government, or they’re just ignorant. Most of these protocols were developed during the Cold War, not after.
Prior art exists. This is already invalid. Just needs to go to court first.
Disney is, in fact, in a bit of a bind. The Force Awakens has sold over 100M tickets. Endgame about 95M. (source: ultimatemovierankings.com) AMC represents about half of the total, perhaps a bit less. AList has fewer than 1 million subscribers. Therefore, even though it knows AMC is likely to lowball its reimbursements on the AListers, it is not in Disney's best interest to refuse to release its next blockbuster at AMC theaters, and risk losing even a small percentage of the many, many millions of normal, traditional ticket sales.
Your own car?

If I go somewhere where it's a pain to park occasionally I will use Uber instead.

Similarly, if I go out I could make a choice of being very conscientious about how much I drink (and thus drive) or take an uber and not worry about being too buzzed.
All of this ^
That seems more expensive than owning a car. Assuming 5 workdays a week and 2 rides per day then that is 40 rides a month on average which could be anywhere from $360 to $480 a month.
In my city the alternative is designated drivers. Uber is what you take when you want to get drunk.
Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode about this?
re: issues with the Ken Burns documentary: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-we-need-new-civil...
Isn't that like, terribly unsafe? A lawsuit waiting to happen imo, if someone doesn't check the brake lights on their trailer...
There's no second level I know of unless we consider automatically collapsed comments to be a second level.
I think I know what you mean about programming being stressful. It’s not the code per se but programming boils down to getting something with the intelligence of a fly (a computer) to anticipate all the needs (known or unknown) if users while coding in tech stacks that actively encourage things to go wrong, in a world where hackers are one step ahead of everyone, and if anything goes wrong you need to cycle up your brain to 100% to quickly fix it or the business is in trouble, while just being a salaried employee.

Even when working for a laid back company I feel stressed with all this.

I’m sure the same stress is in other jobs. Sales people have their targets and seem to get fired more easily. Support people deal with irate people all day.

Not sure how to solve your problem but if you can live more cheaply, try to do 30h a week or less, maybe figure out what kind of programming job would be less stressful, and scratch some side project itches in your spare time with friends. I reckon that might help.

As for the depression - go see a professional right away. That’s the #1 priority. Book it now.
Apollo basically did it to Cassandra in ancient Greek myth.

Can the Iliad be considered prior art?
> From Two 20-Year Old Guys Building Their Own Browser Skin

Fixed it for ya.

Please don't call some url bar chrome a 'browser'.
Not quite, the Jitneys in NYC have a specified route. The Via shares are dynamically routed according to who is in it and who needs to be picked up. That has both plus sides and down sides.
Yeah, that's how all comment removals on reddit work though (which, you're right, many users don't realize).

Users can only know their comments are removed if they check from logged-out or another account, or if the moderators notify them by posting a reply or messaging (which some do, but not a lot of the time overall).
But this is HN. Who wants the easier way? Looking at you JS library users ;-)
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People disagree on this. Warren Buffet for example famously argues that SBC is a real expense even if non-cash, just like depreciation.

More to the OPs point, I'm guessing Uber had FB-style RSUs that don't settle until an IPO or Change of Control. I'm not sure how this all gets accounted for, but given the recent IPO, it sounds like they booked a very large SBC charge this quarter to account for the immediate hit of all the previously issued RSUs finally being settled.

Going forward, the number of RSUs that settle each quarter would therefore presumably not be nearly as large.

But I'm not an accountant so the above may be wrong.
The difference between taxi fares and Uber/Lyft fares has all but vanished. People were willing to pay taxi rates all along, now they are doing so and getting what is arguably a much better service.
There’s a reason nobody cares about the taxi industry before ride sharing: it was small because it was too expensive for most people to use outside of special circumstances.
It doesn’t affect cash flow but it does affect earnings.

One time loss is fine to ignore, but one should still look at the remaining 1.3 billion loss including routine stock based compensation.
Humans being humans love to make the myths easy to knock down so they end up being very general, and often absurd.

The answer then ends up being just as general ("nuh uh!") and so simplistic that it is useless.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it turns into... Twitter.
That's not how percentages work.
Apparently you've never (knowingly) been shadowbanned by AutoMod. Deimorz (the guy you're responding to) created AutoMod when he worked at Reddit, and I can assure you that AutoMod is more than capable of removing all of your comments without you knowing (and the only way for you to know is to try to view your profile in incognito mode, or have someone else tell you that they can't see any of your comments).
Our game actually ships on Windows, macOS and Linux (as well as the two dominant mobile OSs), so I dabble in all of those platforms. The Linux OpenGL performance is indeed better than on Windows, but unfortunately it makes up only a super small fraction of our userbase.

I should note that the OpenGL stack on macOS isn't better than the Windows one either. Probably not surprising anybody, given the lackluster support that Apple has for it. We are seeing similar improvements with Metal as we do for Vulkan.
It's interesting how one or two dissenting views amongst a majority neutral or even supportive results in "This place is <insert bias> now!" I wonder why absolute agreement is required for some people to not feel attacked or marginalized.
Let's say I take a piece of paper, tell you that it's worth $20 and give it you. And then you drop it.

Did you lose $20?

That's a closer analogy to SBC than losing cash.
Smalltalk and Oberon especially are complete or near complete systems: they are described from top to bottom, and in some cases described in themselves.

Oberon is interesting because the 2013 book goes much further than any recent system in this regard. One of the (final?) chapters even describes how to implement the custom processor in an FPGA.
The current Swedish government is centrist on money issues, and very leftist on cultural issues. The same goes for the public broadcasting.
In fact, mods have no other option. If a mod deletes one of your comments, you won't know unless they tell you.
> now they are doing so and getting what is arguably a much better service.

Only until Uber and Lyft run out of cash (a few more quarters based on cash on hand), at which point taxi fares will rise to properly reflect the actual cost of the service.

People will choose a combination of walking, public transit, traditional cab companies, and perhaps an e-scooter and/or bicycle. We lived before Uber and Lyft, we'll live after them. Fun experiment while it lasted.
Please define "contractually obligated" when no contract exists yet to cover the scenario of patron admissions granted via all-you-can-view subscriptions.
Income statements show multiple non-cash expenses. There is a reason why both the income statement and the statement of cash flows exist. Stock-based compensation is included as an expense since 2004 (before it was optional to do so, so unsurprisingly companies relegated that disclosure to footnotes).
3.9 billion to employees in addition to sky high wages. How to get in on the next Uber?
If curious about the history of this type of treatment, check out a very interesting character named Albert Ellis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ellis
Yes. But the service was enabled and set the permissions.
Good news is that we'll be able to do VR with ClojureScript though.
I had the honor and privilege of working along side the HN team and I think the best description I can put out there is that they're wonderful.

HN is a unique place on the internet, I'm hoping it never changes.
Using a bot to automatically delete content is not the same as an administrator making your submissions and comments invisible to everyone but you.

I give it to you, a Subreddit AutoModerator Ban and a Reddit Shadowban are similar in result but not the same thing and should not be referred as such. As far as I know, a regular moderator cannot use AutoModerator to ban a user across the entire website.

For the re-branded Reddit Premium, you seem to be right. But the point is moot, having a premium account is not a protection from getting banned. See paid games where users with accounts worth thousands of dollars are banned.

(Edit: Oh, just noticed who I am talking to. Hi Deimorz! Great work on all of this.)
Same experience here, also in Chicago. I take the bus now it’s much cheaper.
The biggest issue with Uber for me is pricing. I like to pay a fair price. Uber uses AI, therefore, you don't pay a fair price. I don't feel like researching options every time I need a ride. Many tech companies hope for lazy consumers, who sign up for food deliveries and don't notice 5c price hike on eggs. Who get used to ride sharing service and fail to ever verify that uber/lyft still offers competitive pricing.

I don't want to work around it. Therefore, I rarely use these services. It is becoming more and more hassle.
I think we are seeing the predatory behavior of scammers here.

For example, you are claiming that just attaching a chip from an old apple battery to a new one should read as genuine in the phone. That is a total scam.

The detection feature is tied to a chip, not to the cell chemistry itself. If chips from old iphone batteries are all it takes to show a scam battery is genuine, given the high volume of old batteries, EVERY scam battery would show as genuine. This is a workaround already used and well known in other situations. To avoid this workaround you need to tie a specific chip in, not just any apple chip in.

Seriously - how do YOU propose apple alert the user to a bogus third party battery.
>Using a bot to automatically delete content is not the same as an administrator making your submissions and comments invisible to everyone but you.

This is exactly what automod does.
That seems like a pretty good way to handle this vulnerability!

I was thinking about how hard managing this risk was and except removing all windows (which I hope everyone will agree is quite bad), it's hard to protect ourself against this issue from all angle and that's even knowing the issue and trying to handle it (which most people won't even do).