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I'm still not catching why selling insurance requires licensing.

It's a legal mechanism that stops insurance companies selling people policies that don't actually cover them for what they need. Essentially it shifts the understanding of what insurance is required from the buyer to the insurer. It's harder to refuse a pay out if your salesperson has to make sure all the necessary boxes are ticked.
From my understanding, our minds are are not literally filled with things in the real world (for they would not fit) but are instead filled with "thoughts" which "refer" to real things. But my "thought" of peanut butter, for example, might have significantly different "connotations" for me than for someone with an allergy to peanut butter. So what I'm saying is, these "thoughts" and what they "connote" to the individual mind they belong to, is subjective and in our heads, but they may in fact refer to very objective, real, problems.
George, iTerm2 has made my life much better. Thanks a lot for your immense contribution to developer productivity!
s/creepy/fun/, IMO. Too many things get called "creepy" nowadays, as if people had some serious insecurity issues.
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> I think it would be more accurate to say that (AFAICT) Postgres doesn't currently have any way to extend the optimizer with custom plans (though it's been a very popular feature suggestion).

There's http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/custom-scan.html
> But it'd be the law against the dildo in the sock drawer that would be wrong

So you'd have yourself and people you care about hang out in prison, cheerfully thinking to yourself, "We're only here because the law is wrong."

> worked pretty damn well for 200+ years and I see no reason to change it now.

That hasn't been running on its own automatically. It's been a massive bulwark of principled people maintaining it against attacks. And there are too many examples to count of misleading evidence used to mischaracterize, defame or prejudice opinions against individuals.

Consider our own government's treatment of blacks up to and including now. The government doesn't always know what is right and needs principled citizens to amend it.

Think back to that recent demo of predicting race by zip code. Thank back to predatory loaning practices, the KKK, job interview biases, unequal prison sentencing, racial bias by police, etc. and consider what happens in less-principled countries like Turkey and Germany. If I were of a non-mainstream race, I would want as few people to know as possible and I would want protection from society's baser instincts.

Otherwise, it's too easy for people with an axe to grind to abuse their power by sweeping through, say, all phones and singling out by language those that appear to be used by an ethnic or cultural group who may be prejudged to be a threat.
There is also a growing body of evidence that for some people mindfulness and meditation can cause intense and lasting anxiety and exacerbate depression. (Just one of several recent stories on the subject: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/23/is-mindf...)

That has been my experience. I've done meditation retreats and the like. I do find it slows down my mind, but can also surface things that frankly I'm perfectly happy to leave under the surface.

I also don't believe every trauma or internal struggle can be answered or managed, or should be at a given time. Sometimes the best sanity-preservation mode is to ignore it until enough time has passed when we have the mental tools to face it. Mindfulness and meditation both make it hard to bury stuff til you're ready to mentally dig it up. Perhaps day-to-day stress benefits most from it.

I think it's a great idea for some people and I can see the attraction. But I also get tired of people suggesting it to me.

Massage on the other hand...that's like miracle medicine.
From the Judge's request and Tim Cook's response, it looks like the updated OS with the backdoor would no longer wait after each passcode try, and would allow inputting a passcode through WiFi. That allows remotely bruteforcing the passcode.

I would guess that that passcode encrypts the phone, which is why they can't decrypt it.

There's probably more to it (otherwise, they could copy the encrypted data elsewhere to bruteforce it, in which case it would all be a show from the FBI and their real target is other phones).

I'll agree that the ability to update the firmware without the phone being unlocked is poor design on Apple's part. Given the security flaws they've had in the past, this one seems genuine.
I was actually wrong: it begins at around 29. Then people become more and more republican until they get old, run out of money, and become reliant on government services again: http://www.gallup.com/poll/172439/party-identification-varie...
I don't have a manual, and I think everyone might do it a little differently, I just sit comfortably and focus on my breathing.

I think something key is to concentrate on something simple and constant (such as breathing in, breathing out) rather than not thinking about anything. Then, inevitably thoughts will arise, but when we think of something while meditating, we acknowledge it ("ok, I acknowledge that I'm thinking about this right now") and let the thought go, returning to focus on the breathing. That might keep you from falling asleep.
One of my favorite new features has got to be true color support.
Yup, exactly!
This was a pointless squabble to begin with. I just reacted to "askafriend"'s way of arguing against my non-argumentative semi-helpful anecdote... because I think it's really tedious that mere mentions of Linux configurations can turn into a flame war... it also struck me as a little odd to be so ferociously reluctant to engage in any kind of computer configuration, "for even a second", on a forum about hacking.

I happen to see a lot of value in the availability of a free and open operating system, so I take offense when people rail against it in this sweeping way. Yeah, it's not polished perfect like Apple's products (let's imagine that they don't have any tedious bullshit problems), but it's free software and a community effort.

So when people say it's "insane for any normal human being" to use it... eh, that pushes my buttons.

If you install Postgres, you have to mess around with some configuration files. Some people might consider that tedious, painful, horrible bullshit. I just see it as a necessary reality, and I don't whine condescendingly at people who offer advice or anecdotes.
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Meditation is a work-around only.

As written in another post: I started one month ago and then I was frequently meditating with Headspace (which is awesome btw).

While meditation helped me to go through hard times it never solved the underlying problem. It's like taking painkillers without addressing the real cause. I solved the real underlying problem few days ago and I feel like god again.
I did try ITerm2 out for a long time but I found it dramatically reduced the battery life of (newish) macbook, I'd get perhaps 2 hours less per charge, as a result i've switched back to Terminal and using MouseTerm for scrolling in vim.

Have you looked into ITerms' performance in comparison to Terminal?
You can use the MQTT Facebook plugin for Bitlbee and get similar online/offline/active information right there in your IRC client without all the screen-scraping faff.
Insurance plans are complicated. To ensure the customer knows all his/her options and the differences between the plans requires some understanding and basic training.

If I flip your concern around, why do you think it would be appropriate for someone to sell me a health insurance plan without any understanding of what the different plans offer or which plan best served my needs?

If I'm buying insurance, I expect the salesperson to be able to understand my situation, what I'm looking for, and tell me all my available options, and the benefits/drawbacks of each.

Licensing makes sure the salesperson goes through the efforts to get to this point.
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If you're using a language based on it's popularity rather than it's utility then you're doing it wrong.
So how would you alter your thought of a real problem if it seems legitimate to worry about it?
I'm waiting for mutt and weechat to adopt a new iTerm2 inline images feature. That would be epic!
I've found it so good, I switched to using Terminator on Linux. Terminator sort of mimics iTerm2's multi-pane layout, which I find indispensable on high resolution displays.
Only for Fido UAF though. Fido U2F also attains the goal of reducing the knowledge factor to a PIN or something similar, but does this by employing discrete hardware tokens as the possession factor.
Give Terminator a try.
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Maybe it's just me, but I'm kinda getting tired of the whole trope of, "US company sees that it's going down the drain, checks out SEA to hopefully make ends meet." That said, maybe this is just a reality that countries like the Philippines should just accept? (See similar cases: How well Multiply & Friendster worked out in the Philippines)
+ inline images in iTerm2 v3 ;)
I have yet to meet a human being who has used Dart, or could identify its syntax.
Good point. Minor nitpick: I believe this is called CSRF, not XSS? But Im just repeating stackoverflow comments at this point.
Pretty biased obviously!
Doesn't load on OS X Safari either: The Reader Bootstrap request generated an error or timed out. See new window for details.
According to Snowden, the NSA can brute force at the speed of over a trillion guesses a second, of course, they would need to be able to disable other security features first.
> I started one month ago

If I started programming one month ago and I couldn't yet get a high paying job or have a brand new app that is surging on the App Store, would that be a failure? I have been practicing meditation for 25 years and, even though I was earnest, it took me more than 7 years to achieve a state of perfect tranquility. I still have anxious moments in day-to-day life but I mitigate those with meditation. It's like washing your body to keep it clean.
Future tense.

Read it with the word "should" or "shall" implied.

"ruling requiring that it should comply"
Evernote built this app, Scannable, which, amazingly, works. Unfortunately only iOS.
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Could it be an unusual client, like a microsoft phone or something?
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Am I the only one thought it was a new release of "Lazarus: Form Recovery"?
Good point, even though in small efforts you end up waiting for a free one too.

I pity the debugging clerk here. Idleing most of the time or checking bills...
It already a big steps if it avoid you going off road too much and manage to 'feel' functioning.
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And when China or Russia or Syria decides that an American is a mass murderer or a terrorist? Do you want them to compel Apple to unlock Francis Gary Powers' iPhone?

In this case we're talking about someone who walked into an office party and killed 14 people. So ya, I think it's in all of our best interests if we see what's on his phone. Just like I think it's in our best interests if we see what was in his house or in his car. Or do you think we should have just locked the front door to his apartment and waited for the movers to come take everything away?

So if your question is "is there ever a case in which compelling Apple to unlock a phone is OK" my answer is "you bet your ass". There is a right way to do this. It involves warrants and transparency (not secret FISA nonsense). It should involve oversight and be an extraordinary step (just as searching someones home is). But if we catch one terrorist on his way to blow up downtown San Francisco, well it'd sure be handy to have a way to know that his buddies are on their way to blow up Seattle too.

Now I know exactly what's coming, because it always comes so I'm just going to head it off now. No I don't support the unlimited power to search peoples phones. No I don't support the idea of implanting remotely exploitable backdoors into phone operating systems to make this process easy for the government. No I'm not a government shill. No I'm not suggesting that we trade liberty for security. And no I'm not arguing that if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't care about privacy.

NOWHERE in my argument did I take any of those positions. I'm arguing that when the technology exists and the circumstances call for it, backed by transparent functions outlined in the constitution, we should be able to get at data that might save actual lives.

I think China, Russia, or Syria should have that same right. I think that if Apple is going to distribute their phones in those countries they should play by whatever rules those countries have. If Apple really doesn't like it, don't cash the checks.
Because it (assuming you are using Windows) lacks features and fine grained controls? IE also comes with OS, but that doesn't mean one should not look for alternatives.
I expect the salesperson to be able to understand my situation, what I'm looking for, and tell me all my available options, and the benefits/drawbacks of each.

If so, it sounds like insurance salespeople are similar to tax or financial advisors, and regulation forces them to read through and familiarize themselves with all of the options. Fair enough. Just wish the system itself was revamped, pricing schemes simplified, and information made more accessible, to make even this unnecessary.
Age of Wonders is similarly good (part 1, at least, I never got into the later ones).
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Except the order notes that Apple should lock the update to only function with that phone. It also allows them control of the hardware if they choose, provided they turn over the data.

The more I've heard about this the more it seems like cynical grandstanding for marketing purposes: Apple don't want regular people fiction to become "Apple can always unlock your phone".
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Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Economic colonialism, i.e. the old boys imposing their will on the new boys, that's it. Case in point, that UAE company which was not allowed to purchase the management contract for some ports in the USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Ports_World_controversy), the US air business market that only allows American-owned companies, or any big acquisition involving Chinese money on American soil, which automatically creates a "strategic/national defense" discussion.
Instead of the NSA going to your company's network and illegally tapping into it, your company signs up to an NSA promoted company to tap into their network.

Because network tapping is fast becoming expensive, they provide the out-of-bands tapping as a service. An out of bands tap is like having a splitter on the wire that copies the signals that pass through the wire but does not interact with the data in any other way other than to copy it.

Attackers cannot see the out-of-band tap, but they can try to attack or detect its presence.

The infamous NSA tapping of AT&T's entire communication network in California was an out of bands tap. It copied all of the communication passing through the AT&T central comms node in California to a NSA controlled data site through an out-of-bands tap installed into AT&T's network in the form of a fiber-optics splitter.
I thought the idea of meditation was to give you the calmness and clarity of mind that would enable you to solve the underlying problem?

What was your underlying problem?
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I feel like JavaScript is just kicking the revs up to high speed. ES2015 is a huge leap ahead for JavaScript and along with ReactJS actually makes programming web front ends real fun instead of a major pain and chore.
“Steve came to the conclusion that the only way for Apple to really differentiate and deliver something truly unique and truly great, you have to own your own silicon,” Srouji says. “You have to control and own it.”

This words are very encouraging for entrepreneurs. No matter you like Apple or not, this philosophy made Apple succeed.
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> I was suffering every second,

Do you realize you are probably suffering every minute even when you don't have to sit quietly? It is enough to be away from the rich source of distraction and immediately a kind of anxiety appears, making you seek the next stimulus. Is it ok to live with such a constant need to be fed with this stream of data?
Civ I is impressive, even to todays standards (mobile gaming)
I'm very interested in it, I've done it quite a bit, and I've been to several retreats... and I also get tired of the way people go around recommending it willy-nilly.

I don't recommend stuff like that to people, because in most cases it's presumptuous. I don't know what your mind is like, I don't know what's going to happen when you use any particular method, I don't have a wide experience with teaching meditation, I'm just some guy living my own life the best I can manage it...

There's a lot of the same effect as with people who recently started running, or recently started some particular diet, or whatever it may be... for some reason that thing fit into their ideas and lifestyle, and it coincided with a hockey stick point in their satisfaction, or something, and they feel the urge to recommend—for benevolent reasons, since they just want other people to get that satisfaction, too.

There's a difference because meditation, in the most taught forms, is very intimate, as you describe. Its "subject matter" is basically the entire life of the mind, emotions, thoughts, memories, everything, so unless your psyche is squeaky clean like Mr Flanders (who in that one episode of course turned out to have some heavily repressed traumas), meditation is not going to be a nice walk in the park.

Almost everybody who starts doing it finds that they for some reason can't do it as often or as much as they'd like to... it's often unclear why... but could it have to do with the fact that you're sitting down in utter silence and facing like everything at once? And it's kind of intense, and sometimes very painful?

Then there's also the whole "happiness" aspect of the hype & marketing, where everybody imagines that the ideal to aspire for is a happy, smiling, Thich Nhat Hanh type, or something, and all the rhetoric becomes infused with this naive optimism, everybody knows this caricature. So then if you sit down and you find that you actually feel very lonely, or very confused, or very anxious, very angry, very horny, or very whatever... then what? "Just breathe, let it all go..." Ugh!

Sorry, I'm just ranting. For me it's one of these situations when you're very interested in something but the way other people advocate it makes you just cringe.
How does mindfulness meditation surface unpleasant memories for you? When I do mindfulness meditation, I often have thoughts occurring, but they're exactly the same sort of thoughts I usually have when I'm spacing out. It doesn't surface anything that I don't already tend to think about. Of course, I don't have any traumatic memories. Could you describe what happens in your head?
I love modern FreePascal with Lazarus; I wish there were more recent books about it, but it's a wonderful language and IDE.

I really hope people here give it a shot.
That's really cool, thanks.
The "trick" is to not let these things overwhelm you. __Worrying__ about your bills doesn't make you able to pay them! In fact it may actually paralyze you.
As someone else have mentioned most of these connections are progressive connection. Another thing to consider is their CDN usage. Facebook uses Akamai as their CDN of choice, most large to medium size telco/ ISP has their own Akamai Cache server at their NOC. So latency is not issue for the big files (images and JavaScript) after the initial reload, assuming they are not cached on the browser already.

So no matter how many connections are made when visiting facebook, it usually loads fairly fast because of aggressive caching and progressive connections. Most of the time the end user shouldn't be able to tell the difference.
I don't really get why _aarti is down voted.
That must have been a weird switch. Can't you use something like Haxe?
I also don't really like 5 and I think 2 was by far the most balanced one and fun to play. SMAC had an amazing story and varied factions but the replayability just wasn't there for me.

Recently I've found Endless legend and that is a bit of cross between SMAC and Civ 5. Very pretty but a lot of depth too, different strategies possible, varied factions, you HAVE to make custom units (there are only 5 by default, each has ~6 slots for one of 20 pieces of equipment). The combat is completely fucked up though.

EDIT: oh yeah and another thing I kinda like about it is how there is no civilopedia or good tutorial so you have to figure stuff out
I'm a Linux user, and I use iTerm when I'm on a Mac and ConEmu on Windows. Are there some features I'm missing out on?
Facebook and Twitter are backing up Apple in its fight with the FBI
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I always found it amusing that in 5, archers ('missile') had a longer range than any gunpowder longarm ('infantry'), from muskets to modern rifles. I understand the gameplay concept, but it's just stupid when some ye olde archers can hit your riflemen and they can't hit back. I actually think that the transposition of unit tactics onto the world map doesn't make good sense at all; it's an ersatz experience.
When you're little, your parents tell you not to touch the stove, that it will hurt, and the words go in your ears and you understand what they mean, sort of. You understand it conceptually. But of course you touch the stove and get burned. After that, having connected the action with suffering through direct experience, you have very little desire to touch the stove again. Those thoughts just don't arise, or don't have much pull.

Buddhists say we're still touching stoves every day because we haven't connected cause and effect through experience. That's the point of this kind of meditation, to gain insight into important facts about reality that we might already conceptually accept, but have not yet experienced. When you experience these things, you are redoing the plumbing in the basement of your mind.

So the point really is to attack the roots of the problem. It's not to relax, it's to understand what is going on.
Ironically, this post only describes itself. Not the one it is addressed to.
I also think guided meditations are very useful for beginners. The best sessions I've found (at any price) are from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.[1] There's no phone app or payment required. All of their guided meditations are released as MP3 files.

1. http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22
Does anyone have a good suggestion for the most civilization like game for iOS?
I wonder how much money you'd need to pay a very talented engineer to do the work. This is yet another thing I didn't read about before building a home NAS on ZFS.
Thats interesting - I was considering something like this myself. Now Im wondering if I can connect up my old android phone to do the same.
Very good post! And very well written, very humorous. Thank you for your teachings as well!