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Why are mortgage debtors referred to as home owners?

Edit: I was being a bit facetious.

With liar loans, no down payment mortgages, deferred interest, "prices only go up," etc, it's been too easy to sell home "ownership" to people without their requisite understanding of the risks involved and the constantly changing market realities.

I'm all for personal responsibility but the use of language is powerful.
> If the wellness program is offered as part of a group health plan, then the wellness-plan provider is a business associate of a covered entity under HIPAA, and PHI protection applies.
But whether that prevents disclosure depends on what specific consent is given as part of opting-in to the offered wellness plan.

As I understand, these plans often include consent for fairly extensive information sharing with employers as part of the opt-in paperwork (and that that is a big part of the reason that they are offered.)
Actually, someone other than Apple is already able to do the requested things in the court warrant (brute force passcode from a locked iPhone) - ih8sn0w has an iBoot exploit for A5 chipset (same as iPhone 5c), so he can probably boot an unsigned kernel, and use some public tools already published to crack the said passcode. If some lone hacker can do it don't be fooled for a minute that NSA can't, or that the feds couldn't buy something similar from another hacker. This is Apple covering their P ass from the press.
It would make for a good interactive "chart", perhaps. Whereby, as long as your sliders aren't all the way to the left, the chart is mostly green.
What exactly is your point? Applications bundling their dependencies is the norm on all mass-market desktop and mobile platforms. So commercial developers of packaged software are used to it. Such developers even tend to bundle dependencies when targeting Linux, if they want to be distro-agnostic. In this respect, developers of open-source software are spoiled, because they can delegate dependency handling to the distro or, in many cases, the user.
Phone hardware is not the problem they have, Ubuntu phone is. The UX is bad, the app situation is bad (no, mobile websites are not sufficient), it has no point. I got jaded after seeing the Ubuntu TV announcement which quietly went nowhere, and every time I try Ubuntu phone (easy to install on a spare Nexus 4) the fundamentals haven't improved. It's nowhere close to Android or iOS, nor is it a powerhouse replacement for something like the Nokia N900.
IQ tests are designed so that subjects should not be able to increase their IQ. They do however fail at it.
We really appreciate the post, thanks! Not a suggestion for this topic, but would love a future post on request signing in 2016 (think HMAC). In particular there are so many JSON REST APIs these days going over HTTPS that it's hard to determine best practices and what's overkill.
Exactly. There are taxes to worry about which can change over time and how would i know where i want to live in even a few years?

If i would by a property then to rent it out to tourists so it pays for itself plus extra.
Not having your rent increase or being told to move, as are being able to make your home exactly what you need. My home has a 15x15' home gym with all kinds of upgrades I like.. finding a ready made house with my exact ideal gym? Low odds....
Even if we remove docker from the recipe, and we think just about grafana and influxbd, I'm with the other comments:

unless it's just for a test, or for a few personal metrics... separate it.

Eventually, your metrics, sources of metrics, and dashboard users, are going to grow.

Maybe you want even different access level rules for them as soon as your organization is more than one person.

And eventually, different upgrade needs will arise (supported versions, vulnerabilities, etc) do you want your metrics down, because an XSS in your dashboard?

Not really experienced on docker, but all I've read points that this is not recommended practices...
If you look at the code, that's actually what the author has done.

They've made a `make_unauthenticated_request` function that does the work, and the macro just calls it.

But, I agree, I'd probably have skipped the macro.
And DRYed it up with just the function.
> Even if you put just 2 teaspoons, that is 10gr of sugar.
Which is about 30 calories. Which means you'd have to drink 6 cups with that amount to equal the calories of 1 can of Coke.

Add a tablespoon of half-n-half, and that's +20 calories - 50 calories per cup, which means you're still 3+ cups before you equal a can of Coke.

It's all relative. If you have a couple of cups a day with reasonable quantities of things added, it's not particularly egregious on its own.

(Doesn't count milk, but in small amount the inc
Here's the link to the findings on the Action for Sugar website where you can see the full list of drinks included in their survey:

http://www.actiononsugar.org/News%20Centre/Surveys%20/2016/1...

For comparison, the recommendation from UK scientists is that no more than 5% of daily calories should come from added sugar (approx 7 teaspoons):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33551501
Privacy is obviously the foremost issue at hand with the Government's request here, but there is also a huge potential impact on the future of the iPhone software. There is a huge difference between granting access to a user's data at the Government's request vs demanding a customized build of the iPhone's OS. Imagine the long-term implications of having a third-party tether its misaligned feature requests to every OS update that the iPhone makes. What would be the continued relationship with Apple and the agency behind this? Would this evolve into something analogous to HIPAA compliance?
The tracking is indeed significantly better post-sundown. I was actually getting some presence in VR. Very impressive.
As a side effect of historically cheap money, house prices have risen so high that entire younger generations are locked out of home ownership in quite a few areas.

There are a few outliers but in general it's good jobs, affordable housing, pick one.
Why are people getting closer to death every day called living instead of dying?
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> HP's consumer and enterprise divisions are effectively separate companies

Bingo. This seems to be the pattern across the market. I have heard time and again that Acer laptops are crap. But at the same time i have seen at least one of their enterprise models survive basically decade of use with just the cooling fan needed replacing.

The only thing that makes Macbooks "special" is that they are effectively enterprise grade products sold to consumers.

That the article author balks at getting a Thinkpad because of the Superfish debacle shows a lack of research. No Thinkpad was found to have that installed, it was strictly limited to their Ideapad range.
This is all brave talk until they publicly say the same thing to China, until then this political bluster. http://qz.com/332059/apple-is-reportedly-giving-the-chinese-...
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Did the computing term “bug” come from a moth stuck in a computer?
A few years ago some extensions wouldn't work with iceweasel. I forget which ones, and why, but it basically boiled down to: "this extension is meant for firefox". I wish I could remember which ones those were to see if it really was just a naming issue.
Better, if the processes are on the same machine you could use it to share the data via shared memory or a common memory mapping, to avoid having copies of the data on each end of the pipe.
In the HN echo chamber, there isn't a day without some blog post/article describing how our interview process is BS, interview is broken, etc.

I don't necessarily dispute this state of affaire, but does anyone know how it compares to other fiels/professions? How about interviewing a lawyer? Or a doctor? Or an account manager? Or a product marketer? Are developers the only one with a "broken" interview process?
Plenty of handymen out there, I suspect you could find one who would be happy to take care of anything. Don't really need an app for it, just call a few and ask around..
The reasoning there is far from conclusive. The argument is that the secure enclave has been updated in the past (to lengthen enforced delays) without wiping user keys.

However, without more information, this does not tell us whether it is possible in this case. The obvious implementation for a secure enclave resisting this sort of attack is to only allow key-preserving updates when already in unlocked state (which would be the case for any normal user update). All other cases should destroy the user keymat, even if the update is validly signed by Apple. This would be done by the hardware and/or previous firmware before it loaded the new firmware so you can't create an update that bypasses this step.

If this isn't how the secure enclave works now, I'll bet it will be in the next version (or update if possible).
Because the (home) mortgage debt is a liability assumed against a home that the debtor owns (either to fund purchase of the home or afterwards), and therefore being a home owner is a necessary (but not sufficient, as one can own a home free and clear of mortgage debt) condition to being a (home) mortgage debtor.
Apple is also looking to foster growth in foreign markets. That's likely going to take a hit if the U.S. Government has special access to the phone.
I love it, but it doesn't include the rent being raised every year like clockwork. Right now it's $1500, next year $1575 etc
I see so many people who drink fruit juice because they think its healthy. When I eat breakfast at hotels in Europe they often serve fruit juice and coffee, but not water!
Perl programmers should try this module: Crypt::ScryptKDF I have been using it for a while now
I think what happens on the larger posts, is that the direction of the top comment steals way too much focus from the topic of the second top comment.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma also a lot of details
> the data solution proposed in the article is "interviewers rate interviewees in a few different dimensions," which is not any less arbitrary.

This article's headline reveals the spin the HN community is trying to put on it. Many people in SF like to attack the very idea of meritocracy, because if you admit that meritocracy is a good idea, you're implicitly endorsing the idea that people have different levels of merit, and thus that between-group differences in representation might be due to something other than discrimination.
I prefer FreeBSD :)

No code from [redacted] makes it an excellent choice for the privacy conscious.

I use Slackware in the cases where I need a Linux kernel. I think that might give you an idea of what I'm trying to avoid. [redacted]

Anyways, I use *BSD daily in VMWare Fusion for any development that isn't related to iOS. I also do my email and web surfing in OS X because it's simply more pleasant.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll put it on the list. :)
For example - most of the world's population is actually lactose intolerant.
I like that.

But just to be a little bit contrarian for the sake of conversation: Has it been shown that ignoring your gut instinct or even who you like most if inherently wrong? That kind of testing definitely removes a lot of bias, but it just assumes that biases are inherently bad.

There certainly ARE bad biases (sexism, racism, etc). But you may also need to work with the individual you're recruiting, so how well you think you can get along with them or work with them is likely important too.

Plus if this method was common, do you think candidates would prep specifically for those scores? Seems like something very easily gamed. Not to mention that scoring itself can be biased.

As I said at the start, I actually like that, and think they're on the right track. But I'd likely want to combine it with something LESS subjective to get a fuller picture of a candidate.
The court can't make an order that a third party is not allowed to recover (valid) expenses in complying with a court order (if it gets to the point that this becomes so ordered).
That tax deduction does get smaller every year (as the interest/principal balance changes).

The biggest issue I found with owning is that the equity doesn't build up fast enough at the beginning (with a 30-year mortgage), so if you sell after 10 years the costs pile up to the point that you have almost no net proceeds (5% commission, survey/title/transfer tax/inspections, plus prorated property taxes). A 200K property could easily cost you 20K or more to sell.

The best thing you could do is to put as much down as you can, on as cheap of a property as you can (condo, townhouse), then send in additional principal payments so that you could pay it off in 6 - 10 years. Then you can either put away extra savings after that, or move into a slightly more expensive place (about 60K more than your current house), and start the 6 year cycle over again.
Don't feel any obligation, but as long as you are offering, I would be interested in rice farmed with artificial light.
When I read this thread the other day I was hoping you'd chime in. I don't know what you can talk about but I'm willing to bet you saw people manipulating discussions using sock puppets. I know using them to vote was a bannable offense but I don't know if I ever saw anything about manipulating consensus or building a straw man to be torn down by the main account.
They want to use DFU to build a version that is loaded into RAM and run from RAM rather than Flash.
Ah, that's a recent addition. Thanks for the pointer. Does it work for bugs? The post mentions pull request comments.
Yes, I know. But I was thinking about serious people, not general population. Most people are not willing to expend more than 2 seconds of effort before deciding "it's not working, I need to make it simpler / write it down". They don't notice that they probably still remember things like their first girlfriend's phone number, or any random string they've been typing in more than 10 times a day. If you put even half the effort into memorizing something as most do into picking and maintaining e.g. password managers, you'll find that your memory is a better tool than you expected.

People used to memorize whole books.
Financing for real estate projects dried up after 2008, and single-family construction is not an industry that can deliver overnight when demand has risen.

For more analytical view of the real estate market, check out UBS' report (which is bullish) http://files.ctctcdn.com/f0054e99301/0f155366-4016-4c0f-ade0...

Looking at current buy-vs-rent ratios is not very useful, as we don't have much insight into the reasons for renting. Some prefer personal mobility that comes with renting, but some are just waiting on more affordable/accessible/convenient ownership options to pop up, and will be buying in a few years.
Buy a basket of REITs (with geographic exposures of your choosing) to hedge against changes in land value.
Crackable in what way?

Of course the core of it could be upgraded, but the idea is sound. Sounds like you could say the same thing about using a DES-based hash. "Don't Hash! It's weak!" is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
> this is pretty much nuke-from-orbit

That analogy might imply overkill, thus highlighting the tactical advantages of the SFrame approach in processing a month's worth of 1-10GB daily-generated SQLite files, for instance.
You don't need to use the package manager. Users who want to use it will use it.
This is the part where I hope someone comes up with a charitable interpretation or has inside knowledge that refutes the claim. Wow.
Content ID was added because of the legal issues YouTube faced.
"Per US versus Apple in the San Bernardino matter, we request a warrant be issued for encryption bypass in this (separate) matter".
Too many things inside the cloud. Does nobody create software to install on bare metal=
The statistic that went most against my intuition is that San Francisco has the one of the lowest 'rent burdens' in the US. That is, rent as a percentage of income is on the low end and equivalent with many Midwestern cities. I'm guessing that the typical SF renter paying 25% of income on rent may be dealing with a lot less space (and more roommates) compared to someone in Pittsburgh or Minneapolis.
It does. "Rent growth rate" is an option.
> As a side effect of historically cheap money, house prices have risen so high that entire younger generations are locked out of home ownership in quite a few areas.

If it is a side effect of cheap money, how is it pricing people out of the market? The rising sticker price of the property should be offset by the lower price of money which is driving it, so that the actual total real cost of the purchase (including the financing cost) is the same.

Only if something other than the general price of money (an increasing spread between the price of money for favored debtors and disfavored ones, presumably including the young people priced out of the market) is driving real estate prices should someone be priced out of the market.
There is a back door already called iCloud Backups. Because if turned on, all the user data is sent to a remote server and it can be restored to a different phone. So that data is obviously not encrypted using the same highly secure hardware based encryption.
I suspect we will see a reversal of the current urban migration once people have saved up enough money and been in a big city long enough to realize its a losing game trying to get a place not in the burbs.
Same here, the problem is that it takes a lot of time and effort to set up and run a meaningful standardized hiring process (and is very hard to outsource) and also people don't even consider planning for it, thinking they can just ask some questions in a couple interviews.

For more junior candidates I'd go the "take home test" route, for senior candidates I don't see any other solution than sitting down and design the process properly.
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The evidence that the pilots were deliberately masking their flight path shortly before the flight's disappearance, was pretty compelling. I've always felt that the plane was intentionally maneuvered somewhere, but clearly the destination was not dry land.

So we assume for a moment that some organized group deliberately did something to this aircraft. Who has the motivation to execute such a scheme?

Government agencies I rule out - because of lack of a cover story. It does a government no good to leave a massive mystery open to the court of press speculation, especially for so long. It grows distrust in the populace and gives the perception of incompetence, which undermines power. Plus the political risks of being uncovered are too great. There needs to be a cover.

I'd rule out corporations or business moguls for the same reason - leaving mysterious loose ends is not in their best interest. Too much risk to reputation.

Terrorists I rule out as well - they are motivated by public gestures that further the cause. They'd have claimed it immediately and even if the plot was steal the plane and use it later, they'd have done it already.

So what nefarious organization is left? What group would be OK with leaving a mysterious unsolved disappearance out in the open? Criminal syndicates.

Professional criminals are in the business of doing bad things and getting away with it without a trace. To a career criminal, an unsolved mystery is a point of pride.

If there was someone or something of extremely high value aboard the plane, perhaps being smuggled, organized criminals would have the motivation to extract it, far away from law enforcement or even satellites, and bury the evidence without a trace.

But they would have a difficult time landing an aircraft of that size anywhere on land without detection. Eventually it would turn up.

So how about on water? Ditch the plane gently on the ocean, Captain Sully style, extract whatever is in the cabin and then let it sink slowly. Disappears without a trace. Do it far enough away from civilization and nobody will find it.

Pretty elaborate heist, and absurdly risky. But criminals aren't known for being overly risk averse. And even if they botched the job, we'd never know about it.

So that's my theory over who would be responsible. Definitely backed up by what you're saying about the level of organized crime in the Malaysian political world.

That plane was carrying some person or thing that a highly corrupt, well financed individual or group wanted very badly - either to take for themselves or destroy. And so far, they've gotten away with it.
You can customize a rental (to an extent), you just need to get approval from your landlord first.

Of course it would be purely for the benefit of your day to day life as you wouldn't get anything back out of it (if and when you decide to move).

To each his own.
That is interesting, but the rats in this study don't have as well engineered feet as humans and don't sweat either.
> The best Apple could do is sign a malicious update to the Secure Enclave firmware that either removes the time delays or dumps the keys.

Dumping the Secure Enclave would not result in the keys necessary to read the files on the filesystem. Each file has a unique key, which is wrapped by a class key, and for some classes, the class key is wrapped by a key derived from the passcode. If you don't have the passcode, you can't unwrap any of the keys (Page 12 of https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf).
lol at pure js KDF's
Right. That's exactly what I'm trying to point out. The point of the macro is to get the test form stuff.
Bloody hell - 5 tbsp of sugar in a single drink? How can you taste anything beyond the sugar?
Actually the best thing to do is just to have a lot of money. Problem solved!

Your scenario assumes a location (or person) with:

- Desirable housing in the $60-100K+ range
- Employment sufficient to generate high paying positions
- The will to sock away a large part of your income for close to a decade, just to have a paid-off home (which is not a big enough benefits to be a means unto its own)

20% down at a minimum and a 15-year mortgage (or a 30-year paid off in 15 which is close to the same price) is a pretty bullet-proof way to secure a livable property, be able to save beyond just paying your mortgage, and have the freedom that you can get out of dodge in under a decade if you absolutely had to.
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Oh, right, it was tried before.

Hey, remember the Newton? It's kind of a shame we'll never see an improvement on tablet computers since that failure proved it wasn't a viable idea.
Apple doesn't have the master key. Apple can't create a master key. Apple can, if they are forced to, create a variant of their software (which doesn't exist today) that will allow the FBI to try all keys and hope that they find one that works.

Apple could be forced to write software that removes the rate limiter and the FBI could still be stuck without access because it's possible the user used a password with too much entropy.
Maybe, maybe not: http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2013/06/05/what-changes-in....

This article estimates that eliminating the mortgage interest deduction would reduce home prices by ~12%. But if you're in the highest tax bracket, the tax benefit from deducting mortgage interest is around a 28% reduction in your effective payment. So at least at first, you'd lose more to the elimination of the deduction than you would gain in reduced payments.
technical interviews are a joke. the majority of the time they exist so the interviewer can try to feel smart and subject the interviewee to whatever whimsical problem they found on the internet.
how often do you do group coding in a whiteboard in your actual job? at one interview I was criticized for sitting and thinking about a problem for a minute without just blindly jumping into attempting to solve it. also tons of people are great at solving toy interview problems but can't debug their way out of a paper bag.