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Apple Releases iOS 11.2 with Date Bug Fix
If they use mailchimp, unsubscribing gives you the opportunity to report there account as spam and get them banned from the service. Also no reason you can’t also mark it as spam in your email client too.
Hospital in Delhi hands over ‘dead’ twins to family, later one found alive
You can skip the beta: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/02/apple-releases-ios-11-2...
demo: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/f40gilnlxp
Why why why won't you just use LVFS? A number of OEMs have absolutely no problem delivering updates through all sorts of tools and channels.

It feels NIH and is exactly why I'll be buying Dell and never System76. I can one-click flash my Dell forward without configuring or installing anything.

For that matter why is there a "HiDPI Service" running? Why is the driver a set of udev rules that could've been upstreamed?
A numeric keyboard works in mobile browsers. It contains a pluggable keyboard component which is used to respond to user input and a textbox + keyboard suit in replace of native input element.

The numeric keyboard have several versions: plain javascript class and Vue 2 component
To add to above, also some scummy lists use the unsubscribe click as an indicator of a working email, and then classify/sell these at higher prices. And of course, you never get unsubscribed, just get added to more and more lists.
Thank you for the kind correction and clarification, 59nadir. And my apologies to you, Someone1234, for having hastily misread your comment.
If we can write the rules so that we never have to see people with less money than us, we can feel middle class.
Torrent link for where it's not available: https://1337x.to/torrent/2379692/The-Farthest-2017-WEB-DL-x2...
Ask HN: What are the best ways to overcome a defeatist attitude?
America is based on common law. It is a pretty cool concept. Law was built up out of what peoples' customs and shared moral conventions were when a judge or jury made a judgement in trials between people. From English tradition. Most counties not descended from English law have this tradition. Law statues passed by governments overlay this older system.
I know it takes 100°C for water to boil, but how much does the US need?

Keep in mind, Trump is not the source of the problem, he is one of the (reinforcing) symptoms of a host of underlying systemic societal issues.
Sometimes charging more is a signal that you're serious and will increase demand, contrary to elementary ideas about demand curves.
It's not every app. It's a problem with the OS and notifications.
That was quick. Funny they don't mention fixing that specific date bug in the main release notes as far as I can see.
I have no opinion on patents one way or the other, and you have some interesting points about the evolving statues and case law surrounding patents. No arguments there.

But I don't think the things you mentioned are really relevant because patents are just not a viable strategy for _seed_ level startups, and that was just as true 2012-2016 (the seed boom) as it is today. Litigation may be getting more expensive, but it is a moot point because it was already prohibitively expensive for seed startups when it was "cheap." For a company that has only raised in the 500k to 1.5m range with negligible revenue (as would be usual for a seed startup), litigation is off the table.

I also find your reference to the BlackBerry case to be totally out of left field. Under no possible definition of the word "seed startup" could NTP possibly ever be considered one. So how is the example relevant?

Do you have any examples of actual startups that use patents as part of the strategy? There are different definitions of startups, but no one considers a non-practicing patent holding company founded in 1992 to be a startup.

I feel like you have an axe to grind about patents, which is fine, but I honestly don't think there is any relation to the decrease in seed startup funding.
Google has a child pornography problem
On my corner of the world it would UML, using tools like Enterprise Architect.
Rushing out a half-baked major release would certainly have other bad consequence.

Update: They’ve just released 11.2 :)
iPhone black loading screen of death loop
It's sickening how large corporations make more and more money but pay almost no taxes because (through the money) they have so much influence on politics.
Thanks for spelling it out... wouldn’t love if people took the time to think like you did before knee-jerking “well if YOU don’t like it, just go somewhere else” ;)
StartCom termination announcement (via email)
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StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.

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The Germans always were anally fixated.
I've just finished reading "Hooked:How to build habit-forming products", a very good book that explores this subject in a lot of detail.

If you're interested in learning more about this stuff, I highly recommend reading it.
The vast majority of residential land in the US is dedicated to these types of homes. You're basically saying, "legally enshrine my preference as the default for 90% of available space". That's unreasonable and kind of dumb, honestly.

The market wants denser housing because people want it. I have no problem with single family homes being allowed all over the place, I just don't think they should be mandated, which you apparently think is a good idea. It's an injustice that this preference for SFHs is written into the law when people want something else, and indeed, there are many advantages to denser urban forms.
This will go down in history as one of the most grotesque things to ever have happened in American politics. And that's saying a lot, there is some stiff competition for sure.
No, sometimes it is necessary, and sufficient, to point out that there is a problem. Especially if that's not recognised.

My doctor, dentist, electrician, plumber, and mechanic don't tell me I'm "basically just whining" if I call them and tell them that something's not working.

Mind, if I've got an idea as to what's wrong, or can point out additional information or context, they're generally happy to hear it. But they're the experts in this context, and are far better than I at identifying just what's gone wrong.

Doesn't mean I can't tell something's broke.
If you’re on 11.1.2 and not having the problem, then you don’t have an app with local notifications.

In my case it was the Pebble app, apparently. Turning off it’s notifications stopped the constant respringing, though has presumably left we with a much dumber watch.
Depends on the time of year.

Right now I'm in my home office and am wearing hoodie, t-shirt and thermal base layer. Plus loose-fitting thermal trousers. It's cold here though right now and I tend not to turn the heating on until I really need to or the cat starts getting uppity. {grin}

One tip I would highly recommend if you are working in a traditional office - Crocs. I used to keep a pair in the office and you can wear them with or without socks. Crocs are surprisingly comfortable and they let the air get to your feet. Nothing worse than sweaty feet in the office IMHO.

For the hike into the office it again depends on the time of year. Summer = sandles, Winter I wear some really comfortable Timberland boots - warm and waterproof - just the right thing if you should step in a puddle in the dark on the way into the office. For the really cold mornings I'll be togged up with three or four layers including Mountain Equipment hoodie and Mountain Equipment waterproof jacket.
For those who didn't watch the proceedings, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQAYbwpU8AELZa0.jpg was one of the actual pages of the bill, quite literally handwritten scribbled margin notes.
To be fair, the slave markets most in the news today only exist because USA killed Qaddafi after we made a deal to leave him alone once he gave up all his bad weapons.

Yes, I know, he was a bad guy so the good guys (who the hell is that?) didn't have to be ethical toward him, by good old American cartoon-character standards. However, he wasn't selling thousands of migrants into slavery so that's something. Also, his continued existence after giving up his weapons had inspired others like DPRK to slow their nuclear roll. After we shoved a bayonet up his ass, they changed their minds...
iOS 11.2 has seen 6 dev betas and the GM was set to arrive any day.
The law making process is so clearly broken. I see this as a contributing factor to the long gradual decline of the role of the USA in the world. The reemergence of China should be engendering a positive spirit of lifting the game, not a money grabbing exercise.

If you can’t make evidence based laws for the people then society will be warped into some dysfunctional dystopian end game.
You missed the point I made where I suggested to beware of certain European urbanistic mistakes such as the Banlieues, satellite neighborhoods an so on, which are in line with the straw man you built...
I have been watching comments on NYTimes and Fox News and what surprised was not a single person (out of couple of thousands) actually estimated their tax bill and compared.

There is one calculator out here (which might not be accurate because of changes): https://www.calcxml.com/calculators/trump-tax-reform-calcula...

I used it to arrive at following numbers. If this tax calculator is right then there is indeed ~$10K tax cut for everyone in middle class and above:

$750K->$236,950 to $212,060

350K->$81,595 to $72,060

250K->$47,701 to $38,900

150K->$17,778 to $9900

50K->$548 to 0

On the other hand this NYTimes analysis says that lower and middle class cuts are tiny but people with $1M or more just get huge cut: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/17/us/politics/s...

Also, according to above analysis poor people will be taxed more than before after 10 years!

So overall at this point I think computing impact remains very hazy given all kind of conflicting information. But one thing for sure, rich people are the major winner here given much higher cuts + no or less death tax. Warren Buffet had said that common strategy they used during Bush era was to give $400 one time check to everyone so they are happy while sneaking in millions of dollars of recurring tax cuts for the rich in form of capital gains.

I wish US had Swiss style public referendums where people can demand to vote on legislation and overthrow any legislation they wished.
If we would put as much attention to innovations saving millions as we do to war killing millions, the world would certainly look brighter.
Not unreasonable to have that desire, just like it's not unreasonable for me to desire people throwing money at me in the streets. Just unreasonable for me to expect society to cave to my desires when it's in not in society's long-term interest to do so.

Ever increasing property values caused by artificially restricted zoning is basically a generational Ponzi scheme. It's stupid and wrong and it can't last forever. And like real Ponzi schemes, the only people who benefit are those who got in early.
I'm in Thailand and there's a fund here called 500 tuktuks. The local startup people I talked to didn't find it offensive.
The follow up is to use conservative free market rhetoric towards maintaining a free market on the internet, and pointing out that neutral networks are the default state and are therefore NN is not burdensome legislation.

Any other ideas? I really think the most conservative position is to maintain a neutral internet.
One of the problems of US is the fact that protesting is virtually impossible. Unless there are 1,000,000 people in the streets of DC for two weeks, no one will care. Protesting in your city has little impact on the federal level. Also The general lack of public spaces makes it hard. And the fact that the police cracks down pretty hard on things after the first display of some sort of "disobedience". Look at the photos from protests in like France. Shit on fire, people throwing shit, but the police doesn't shoot them.

Dystopian police state here we come. Fuck I hope at least there will be a real NeoTokyo in the future.
The U.S Bureau of the Census has the annual real median personal income at $31,099 in 2016.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
Minor upside: it still has to go through reconciliation and this Congress has proven itself expert in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. But yeah, this is an economic dumpster fire.
While I cannot condone or support the recently publicized explicit depictions my opponent claims to the subject of, both myself and the people at Facebook have the utmost respect for user privacy. As always users are encouraged to create locally computed perceptual hash values of the content in question using the publically available SDK tools and submit them to the proper support channel for assistance.
What a horrible process. You don't get good legislation written by ramming it through without time to evaluate the consequences of the law.
For a single earner making at least $100k a year, I'm looking at moving away from the Bay Area for any notion of not blowing $50k on rent every year.

I can't even touch the housing market in an area inconvenient to my work without literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in liquidity. That is cash that I simply do not have, nor do I have wealthy relatives that can front me the money. Please don't assume that just because an engineer has, what looks like a high income on paper, that they can even afford houses that cost millions of dollars in a high cost of living region as the Bay Area.

My coworkers that have set down roots here have to drive hours, and they're also making "at least 100k a year". What about the engineers that need jobs and homes, and the people that move just for their job? City's full, go away.
Typically they offer you like 10 minutes to confirm the email. If you don't, you're out.
I don’t believe it gives the email to the vendor but rather just sends a receipt from Square.
You don't seem to understand. The point of a regional authority is that it could play fair and spread the necessary changes. Most people in the bay area agree we need more housing already, they just want it in a different neighborhood or different city, hence the use of the term NIMBY. But when almost all of the cities push the problem onto someone else, nobody does anything. A regional authority could spread out the development appropriately.
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"They" could move.

But you'd need to convince a lot of "them" to move.

And you'd have to coordinate that move to a single second locale.

The network effects and low-friction of local contacts are real. Distance is time and time is money. All take energy, infrastructure, and capital.

Ironically, the more ephemeral a product, the more concentrated its development, because the one thing you need to work on it is people (including all the support and acilary staff). An earlier example of this was Hollywood. Films can be shot anywhere, and the end product was a few cans of celluloid that could be shipped to theatres.

But it was the actors, and cameramen, and catering staff, and carpenters, and electricians, and equipment support, and musicians, and effects people, and .... that were expensive. And who'd clustered in Los Angeles.

Factors that did lead to spreading out the industry? Language. And occasionally government regulation limiting the import of American film. But France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, India: all developed their own local film industry, of at least some size, in large part because Hollywood couldn't make talking pictures their audiences could understand.

(Also: cultural, location, and other factors, but language was a biggie.)

So the friction of what language are we going to develop in (as in human language) actually lead to a decentralisation of production.

Ironically: better and more efficient technology leads to greater density, not less. Though it's rapidly running up against housing-as-asset as a massive problem.
Sorry, I should have said 95% baked.
Tim O'Reilly on the Future of Consumer Tech
The reality is that no-one really understand the consequences of the bill. It's a gigantic shit-pile of hastily written hacks crammed together at the last minute and rushed through without any opportunity for anyone to actually evaluate it.
Companies could already save money this way, since they could pay people less than bay area salaries.

So ask yourself: why aren't they? Do they just hate money? Are Google and Apple logistically incompetent companies?
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What's the difficulty? The pluperfect is one of the easier tenses in French. Its formation has no exceptions--one of the very rare tenses in French with no exceptions: imperfect + past participle.

And its usage directly parallels the pluperfect in English:

I had finished my meal when he arrived.
J'avais fini mon repas quand il est arrivé.
It's more like YIEBY. YIMBYs want more housing pretty much everywhere there's high demand.

It's like they want the market to be able to match demand with...supply, or something weird like that.
That's basically what postmortems are! For those unfamiliar with the term, postmortems are a written account of an incident, its impact, the actions taken to resolve resolve it, root causes, and identifying any follow-up actions to prevent the incident from recurring.

I think postmortems should be a valuable learning opportunity for the entire company, and are by no means a punishment. In an organization that fosters "blameless culture," this allows the organization to grow and to identify and fix a weakness.

Google's SRE book [0] also talks a bit about this in the chapter about Postmortems.

[0] https://landing.google.com/sre/book
You’re missing the big picture. Our country will have a larger deficit and the burden on a percent share basis is heavier on the middle class.
An iOS 11 bug might crash your iPhone on December 2nd
Those numbers you posted are probably inaccurate. The true numbers really depend on whether you itemize your deductions, and how much. This particular tax bill substantially raises taxes for people who itemize, in particular states with high local taxes like California.

I don’t know about Fox News but The NY Times had a good analysis of this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/28/upshot/what-t...

Obviously many families and individuals will see their taxes go up.
I think Mitch McConnell will go down as a historically terrible senator. He has an absolutely single-minded focus on winning legislative "victories" without any consideration of the actual merits of what he's corralling votes for or agaisnt.
No reason that couldn't be the case, and there's some history of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_School_(economics)
There’s an official guide now: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208332
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I'm not sure their motives for this choice, as their means of disabling as much of ME as possible is ME cleaner, which is not tied to distros.

I don't see why you can't attempt to do it manually yourself, without the aid of their driver and firmware update tool. Except that you might forfeit any warranties/support.

System76, can you clarify?

Sadly it's standard to only see official support for Ubuntu or RHEL in the Linux world. Not that I don't understand, it's all very fragmented, and that creates a lot of work as to support multiple distros. People are working on remedies, though.
Remove the highlighted area from Craigslist
Let's check how to clear highlights from craigslist. Whenever person returns to the site, previously viewed links automatically highlighted and displayed in a purple or blue link. If any person does not want to see the history, he can delete all viewed URL in an Internet browser.
"Why should I have to live near a homeless shelter? Gross, homeless people."

"Why should I have to recycle? The environment? Pffff."

"Why should we let in immigrants and compromise our lifestyle? Build the wall!"
Bad hygiene.

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/36518392
I know something's wrong with me, and I need to be treated, but what could be a better that killing myself. It looks like this is the only thing that will work.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wp3yreeTUmU
Multi-Threading Like a Boss in Android with RxJava 2
China has been able to migrate hundreds of millions of its citizens from rural farms to urban skyscrapers, and it hasn't been fundamentally expensive. Obviously costs in the US are much higher, but that's the problem that should be attacked. Replacing single family homes with two story apartments doesn't deal with the problem long term, and invites political battles that may be unwinnable.