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I really don't understand how Apple Maps, no matter how bad it was, could make someone hate the company. Removing functionality from hardware/software you already purchased, yeah that's pretty bad. Releasing a new app that isn't as good as the competitor's app... so what? Who cares? Just use the far superior and still available Google Maps like you were yesterday. It has literally zero bearing on your life. If you hated every company that put out a crappy app or buggy 1.0 release, you'd be a very angry person indeed.

Remember Google Reader? Google+? Wave? Buzz? Every company puts out shitty apps now and again.
Well, ever since the change of government China has been closing back on itself again and censorship has been stronger and stronger. It's not surprising and tells me I made the right choice to leave the country in 2013...
ZFSOnLinux does not use FUSE.
I guess I'm fine with it as long as it's opt-in - by that I mean, so long as the customer has to actively look for the option.

If all ISPs did this by default then a lot of content on the web would disappear several months down the line.
The requirement is to ship the source in the preferred form for making modifications. That doesn't include standardized external tools, but it surely includes the build instructions (with things like which versions of the tools to use) and test suite (and indeed git history - mjg59 has disagreed with me regarding that before, but I don't think he gave a rationale) - those are things you'd definitely want to have for making modifications.
That came off reading much more judgy than I had intended. I meant it's their prerogative in the same sense that serving the ads in first place was their prerogative, not that there is a moral imperative to listen when they do.
I'm working on something similar like on-and-off but i'm trying to remove the limitations in usability (e.g. unpack and run)

Features that I for myself want / nearly have:

- My mom should be able to install it.

- Scan from phone, upload to central server / nas

- Everything AES Encrypted when not logged in, decrypted on
use (including sqlite database on shutdown)

- Documents can be decrypted with plain openssh, without having the original program.

- Fulltext search through invoices (by extracting PDF text and putting them in SQLITE fulltext indexes)

- categorisation

- built-in PDF reader / printer
Are there any open source alternatives to the iPhone that might take off because of these happenings?
If all things were equal, and your repayment terms were a fixed artifact, the strategy assumed to be optimal in the article would be correct -- it would make more sense to focus on the higher interest rate to avoid accruing interest. But they aren't.

Credit cards in particular are tough -- if you have alot of debt and credit lines and don't make significant impact on principal, they start cutting credit limits, which incurs fees. Interest on fees and fees have payment precedence over regular interest and principal, so it starts a vicious cycle. You end up in a situation where the banks assume you will default, so to compel you to pay more to them, the credit card will drop your limits to trail your balance.

So you really have two priorities: paying down debt and maintaining credit lines to avoid capricious changes in your payment terms.

When you have lots of credit lines, minimum payments start to matter alot, as they sap your re-payment power. If you focus on closing the smaller accounts and walk your payment focus up the stack, you'll be able to make more significant payments and stay afloat. When you make alot of progress, you have a higher likelihood of refinancing the bigger debts, which is ultimately where you save on the high-interest accounts.
Good article and interesting study with multiple psychological inputs. I think debt in general is difficult to process mentally because "negative" money is quite different than "positive" money. Money that you have can be visualized - you can spend it or even pull it all out in cash and see exactly how much it is and how it grows or shrinks. Debt is purely a number on piece of paper or a screen. You can't "run out" of debt or go to the bank and get your debt in negative dollars. So without paying careful attention to financial rules like compound interest, dealing with debt is something that humans just aren't inherently very good at.
Even professional economists struggle to understand the exponential function.
> Drug dealers and politicians (same thing in my opinion)

The number of things wrong with this statement. I don't like most politicians, but those two are very different. I'll just leave it there, because I don't even know where to begin to refute this.

Also, anyone that uses +$100,000 in cash is a bad person? This makes no sense. I run a charity, and if I choose to give cash to the organizations beneficiaries, is it evil? If I do the same thing personally and find $100,000 to give to charity or a family in need, am I evil now? Generalizing people who spend a lot of money (to you anyway, it's a very subjective and arbitrary definition of a lot of money) is just illogical.
Exactly. Every small balance is a potential disaster in the making, an autopay that inexplicably fails, a teaser interest rate that expires, an unexpected annual fee or recurring charge from a merchant, a supremely annoying hour on the phone, etc. I had the exact same reaction to that part as you did. If you're going to evaluate economic actors for rationality you have to make sure your assumptions of what's rational are well grounded first.
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Red Hat is energetically criticized on many fronts. I think early growth in Ubuntu on servers was entirely due to Red Hat hatred.
If you open up add-ons find uBlock Origin, press the "go to dashboard" button the first page has a bunch of checkboxes. At the bottom of the first group there is a check box called "I am an advanced user ..." Check that and now you have a mini uMatrix in your uBlock Origin menu.

Global block/allow is the left column, local (to the current domain) block/allow is the right column. I always globally block 3rd party scripts and frames and locally allow things like ajax.google.com when sites are borked.

Apparently now I need to start locally blocking 1st party scripts on sites too because of shenanigans like this.
I can't spot a reference to DPI or Shine in the article, but they could block ads somewhat effectively without DPI using DNS blacklists, for example.
Atlanta area. Average Ruby web dev salary for region and experience level. You can buy a McMansion (if that's your thing) for less than the price of a closet in the worst parts of the Bay Area. Poke around on zillow.com.
If you have uBlock, advanced mode can block the script that puts up the adwall. Just click off the allowance of 3rd party scripts for the page.
I was wondering that as well, but on the other hand, by its nature an open source device would be much easier to hack, would it not?
Exactly. A transaction like this would likely trigger multiple risk indicators and require manual intervention by the bank/3rd party before a transfer of this nature would be allowed.

Not saying it can't happen, of course, but it shouldn't.
This is showing that the Dave Ramsey "debt snowball" (pay off smallest debts first to get a psychological win and some breathing room by having fewer minimum payments) is a more effective way to get people to pay off many separate debts than paying off "highest interest rate first" even if it is less optimal for a rational actor. Just another case of people aren't 100% rational that many people have known for a while.
I'd say playing an instrument or walking both are nearly equivalent to meditation, because with the former you're clearing your mind and focusing on playing, and the latter you're clearing your mind as you expend energy walking while looking at and enjoying nature (or at least that's what walking does for me). They seem to have similar effects to when I have meditated (very infrequently, so YMMV) in the past.
At the time of this comment, the article was posted less than an hour ago.
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No problem here, using Chrome + Ublock Origin
I know a MAJOR uk holiday company about to roll this out. The managers think they are being so clever with no consideration for the inevitable PR clusterfuck.
People decided to listen to lawyers who read the licenses instead of listening to statements by people claiming to know how things work without actually reading either license or asking a lawyer about it. That is quite literally the only change.
Many online companies now let you get a personal loan in far less time, id say in under an hour for most people. There may be a veritification process that adds on time but it's definitely not required for everyone (and usually are for people who are uncomfortable with online verification)
As a very concrete way to think of it, consider the typical middle class lifestyle in India. Consider all the labor that is regularly outsourced - house cleaning, cooking, laundry, etc. If I want to eat a paan, buy a cigarette, or other snack/consumable, I only need to walk a city block or so before I can find someone willing to sell it to me. Any educated female can easily afford child care so she can work. My office has multiple servants to make life easier for the skilled labor employed therein; if you want maggie, momos or beer, just give them some cash and they'll bring it to you.

At the moment the problem in the US is labor scarcity. Robots haven't replaced these jobs, these jobs just don't get done.

When robots provide the same level of services to the US middle class, that would be a signal that we might need to think about something like a BI. Until then, BI is really solving the complete opposite problem to what we have.
My rough guess without the analysis as above was. "Should get at least 5%". That's to replace your lost salary.

Think also that you are a key player in building "something big". You need to be rewarded for assuming risk beyomd the lost salary. That could be another five basis points there.

Pay attention to what class of shares you get and any contract clauses on dilution as well
Except Apple Maps pushed out Google Maps on the phone which can no longer function with Siri. The only thing I found Siri useful for was asking directions while driving. Once Apple Maps took over those directions started taking me places I didn't want to go so essentially the Apple Maps release removed functionality from my phone.
> Do you find yourself having to look at your phone to control stuff?

Yes, but unlike a regular remote I don't find myself pressing the same button 100 times.

I no longer watch broadcast television, so there is no need to flip through channels to see what is on, I just select what I want to watch on my phone, and then tell my phone to play it on my roku/TV.

The interface could still use a lot of work, but remotes are very clearly stuck in the last century and we've just gotten very used to them.
I like to meditate on the bus on my way into the office. I have noticed a significant increase in my ability to "get things done" when stressed as well as my ability to take in sights and sounds.

I highly encourage everyone to start meditating.
What were you selling them anyway?
If I met someone with whom I shared numerous characteristics, I wouldn't find the coincidences interesting nearly as much as the engaging conversation with someone who was effectively a stranger a few moments ago.
It says they use Tesseract as the OCR engine. My experience using Tesseract in other places has been that it works pretty well and if you tune it a bit it can work very well. It struggles a bit with formatted text like tables or diagrams, but does pretty well with blocks of text.

The best (most accurate/flexible) OCR software I have ever used is ABBYY, which works so well I can only infer that it is powered by magic. Unfortunately that magic is proprietary, somewhat expensive (though not so bad really) and Windows only. I used it to help my mother digitize hundreds of pages of salary data for a consulting job she was doing where the text was formatted oddly and even with all that we only had a handful of errors in about 800 pages.

It doesn't have the awesome organizational stuff that Paperwork does however, which is what I've really been wanting for a while. This is reminding me of an awesome app I used to use when I had a Mac, which is DEVONthink. Basically a personal document database , Mac only and extremely useful, it was one thing I definitely missed. I use [the excellent, highly recommended for academics] Mendeley to organize PDF journal articles and such, but it's not so great for scans.
We Are Now at Peak TED
I love how a chronically ill homeless single mother (at least as of the last time I heard about Michele's personal situation) is being compared to Marie Antoinette, solely because she dares to hold a political view outside the received wisdom.
Sure. Also sounds like a sexual harassment lawsuit/insurance liability/customer privacy catastrophe waiting to happen.
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In the case of Nvidia's modules, Nvidia's proprietary licensing disallows distribution of a prebuilt nvidia.ko (as that implies distributing a modified version). Coincidentally, their license terms for the OpenSolaris driver have no such restriction and the OpenSolaris descendants distribute the prebuilt module without potentially violating Nvidia's license terms.

Amazingly, their Linux licensing used to be worse. They used to claim you were only permitted to install the driver on one computer within an organization
They have to handle the devaluation of the Renminbi and a slumping economy somehow /s
Don't keep stuff on your smartphone, that's my solution.

At most it should be a thin client.
Is there a book/article you'd recommend?
These figures aren't entirely accurate, but they actually prove my point: palestinian deaths are tragic, but the only alternative is to let even more of these rockets through, which will lead to more deaths, although on israeli side of the border. Iron Dome has a limited capability, and where the rocket attacks start to get dense enough, the only option left is to destroy the launch sites and stockpiles.
It's not that difficult. You just need to have something another civ wants, and trade them for their vote on an issue. Also, you can form your own voting bloc by allying city-states.
I agree. I find my self doing this often with to do lists. Knock off quick and easy stuff so i feel like im making headway even if its not the most important / impactful. I find that more tempting in personal than work where i am only accountable to My self.
So I can definitely to the "irrational" people in here, it's not so irrational when you think about all the consequences.
a happy lifetime headspace subscriber here! it's amazing!
Thanks. Downloaded dosbox and had nostalgia for lunch ;-)
I have literally have people tell me that this is still rationality because it's the rational thing "for them". Like, the weirdest one was a cognitive psychology doctoral student.

I mean, okay, if you can redefine rationality to be completely subjective, then sure, rationality is flargikriggendurf.
You're talking about screens. Your original comment specified "parts". Things like home buttons, ribbon cables, chassis, battery, camera modules, etc, can all be OEM.

You can stomp up and down and say OEM parts don't exist, but they do. Not only that, but phones that are bricked, stolen, or maybe even water damaged slightly could have the screen salvaged assuming it wasn't ruined. They do exist.

Will you be lucky to get an OEM screen, probably not, but my comment was to highlight the fact that what you're saying about parts being 3rd party 100% of the time are impossible.
Yep, I came here with that same pull quote in my clipboard. "We had hoped that you would come to Yahoo because of our distinct voice and unique blend of original content, aggregation and personalization. But it turns out we don't actually have anything resembling that, so..."
My Facebook feed is full of people ragging on Trump for being on the wrong side of this issue, but they are silent about Obama:

"In a secret meeting convened by the White House around Thanksgiving, senior national security officials ordered agencies across the U.S. government to find ways to counter encryption software and gain access to the most heavily protected user data on the most secure consumer devices, including Apple Inc.’s iPhone, the marquee product of one of America’s most valuable companies, according to two people familiar with the decision."
Doesn't it also contain other trace elements that we generally don't want in our air? It's not just carbon
Yes, in his course he explicitly explains this strategy is in deference to human psychology. Even if paying towards highest interest debts is mathematically optimal, better to have a strategy you are likely to stick with, than a theoretically better strategy you are more likely to eventually abandon.
Not a stupid question, especially since I just made it up as I went along - so there's not much to go on. Will try to put together a little mini example on github (but that will require me actually doing a bit of dissecting).

I've also looked through the Fowler stuff (as well as almost everything else on the subject!). One thing I struggled with a lot was how to handle the DB layer. Fowler has that as the layer right in the middle of the system but I really didn't like that model. All the web frameworks are set up so the db layer is very entangled with the framework and it's quite hard to escape.

Let me put something up on github. Send me an email (in my profile) and then I can let you know once I have something to look at.
That does sound rational though, by paying off the small debts you reduce the amount of information you have to comprehend. It may not be ideal financial advice, but it will make the remaining debt easier to manage on an emotional level. You also get the peace of mind that those smaller problems will now not spiral into larger problems. You are free to focus on a resolution to the problem.
You don't see them going after servers, because the servers are far more vulnerable.
It's only been up an hour. And to most Americans (the largest portion of HN's readership), this seems like par for the course for China.
Anyone at a point where they are making monthly payments on multiple credit cards has already lost the debt game. People don't manage debt better because they have been marketed to and taught to use debt completely inappropriately.

Debt should be used to purchase an asset that will appreciate or otherwise provide an income in excess of the interest payment on the debt. Full stop. That is how businesses use debt and that is the only sensible strategy. As a consumer, a house may be a sensible use of debt. A reliable car needed to get to work may be a sensible use of debt. A student loan might as well. Carrying a balance on a credit card is almost never an appropriate use of debt.

Unfortunately, marketers have instead convinced consumers that debt is an easy way to buy things they can't afford and pay for it later. This is almost always a losing proposition for the consumer, who invariably ends up paying much more than they would have if they had just saved up and bought the thing in full up front. The way to sensibly manage this is to not fall into the trap in the first place.
Just a small note, you don't have to do nothing to practice mindfulness, I do it all the time while driving, walking, or doing anything that I have on "autopilot". All you need to do is be non-reactive; when you experience something (including a spontaneous thought), stop your mind from automatically pulling up associated thoughts and memories.

I find it helpful to remember that the sentient fraction of matter in the universe is vanishingly small, so your ability to experience is truly a blessing. Mindfulness occurs almost by accident if you just focus on savouring your experiences.
No. This is called security through obscurity, and is not effective. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity?wpr...
Cool stuff. I was recently having this idea of putting my CSS in a JS file and inlining it when the page loads. Are you using it in any project? How maintainable is this?
I don't know. I took the two seconds to unblock them. How would you have implemented it to look less desperate?
There's an old saying about not being able to change your wind, but being able to change your sales? It's like that.

Imagine you've got a bill due that you know you're not going to have money to pay no matter what you do. This is a significant amount of stress that you're going to be carrying with you over something you really don't have the power or situation to do anything about.

Hence: Change your sail. The consequences of missing that payment are insignificant in the long term, and dwelling on it is going to do you more mental damage than moving a number in a database down a few ticks.

Same with a horrible job. Even when you get time off, there's that sickening dread at the edge of your perception that soon, you'll have to go back. And it eats on you like nothing else.

Change how you think about it. You can dwell on it and be stressed out, or you can recognize that this, too, shall pass.

That sounds trite and blasé.. and it probably is, until you really internalize it, and realize that you ultimately have control over what you choose to dwell on.
I wondered the same thing. I use freenode every day and wasn't aware of any drama at all.
And that establishes a precedent. So, in a future case that is less sensational, the court could order to Apple to unlock that phone as well and Apple would have to comply. Apple doesn't get to pick and choose which court orders it complies with. That goes for court orders in the US, China, Canada, etc...
Without endorsing all the ideas in them, here are two interesting books:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_of_Civilization_and_De...
Thanks for the mention! What makes Paw different is dynamic values which lets you access/parse data from previous responses and compute anything you want. It's a simple way to do visual programming for your API testing. Also today we're introducing full encryption for users credentials. Also, Paw is a native Mac app, and we love the look and feel it has. (disclaimer: I'm Paw's founder)
That's how TopTable, a UK table reservation site used to work. 10 years ago most restaurants did not have online booking (may be not even a website!), but you could still book through TT -- they'd just call the restaurant on your behalf to confirm and update your account. I believe this was a win/win for the restaurants: a fancy place back then might well have free tables for tomorrow evening but everyone will think they're fully booked.

TopTable was eventually acquired by OpenTable (losing lots of its charm in the process).