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Sailfish OS is built on all the same technologies that are upcoming in the desktop/server linux world, namely systemd, pulseaudio, wayland. They even use BTRFS for the root filesystem.

That is the real Linux phone.
Absolutely agree. I'm in a kind of death march of my own, since my exams start tomorrow and yet I haven't asked for days on my full time job (as a software engineer, i.e., a completely brain-oriented job). For the last 15 days I've done basically nothing but studying, working and satisfying vital needs like eating... or sleeping. Not for a single moment have I thought of sleeping less than 7-8 hours a day, since I know for past experiences that it would be the stupidest thing to do. Anyone advising to undersleep, especially when you have to do a lot of work, is completely clueless (or worse, wants you to fail). I'm so concerned with not undersleeping that I'm getting up extremely early, so that if my body is asking for more than 8 hours, I still have plenty of time to sleep before going to work.

(This break, that I'm using to write this message, will be the last one until the end of the next three days, which include 4 exams)
It has a bit of a southern connotation that might be awkward for urban customers.
When comparing things (the US is one of the most amazing places in the world -> the US is amazing in comparison to most places) it's usually more important to focus on differences rather than similarities.

State-sponsored slaughter of innocent people in the Middle East and Africa is a pastime enthusiastically practiced by Canada and all of the "important" European nations (UK, Germany, France, and to a lesser extent Scandinavians) not just by the US.
You're right. This is indeed an alarming number of flags.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/01/17/obama_nsa_spe...
Good article, perhaps could've been extended with a more common example. For instance, a person that chooses to work in a startup instead of a wall street bank.
DWYL is a very good tool that's exploited by many: small firms and corporations. I'd say you should in general find your vocation as early in your life as you can but allow yourself to sidestep sometimes for money or horizon expanding opportunities.
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Except your example conveniently leaves out:

1) Property Taxes
Between 0.18% to 1.89% in the US. Let's assume the mean of the two for 1.035%. In the first year, that would be a payment of $5,175. Over 30 years, using the same 3% inflation to calculate the future value of an annuity, that works out to $246,202.78

2) Opportunity cost of down payment. Assuming a 20% down payment of $100,000, the future value of that money would work out to $100,000 x 1.03^30 = $242,726.25, or a gain of $142,726.25

Note that this is already quite a conservative return. A well-balanced portfolio over the last 10 years, even taking into account the disaster of 2008, would have easily exceeded 6%.

3) Maintenance/Upkeep
At $2,000/yr and 3% inflation, the future value of the annuity would work out to $95,150.83

So, the cost of owning in your example is actually:
$783,370 + $246,202.78 + $95,150.83 = $1,124,723.61

and the cost of renting is:
$1,141,809.977 - $142,726.25 = $999,083.727
Presumably it's the first thing peaceful states do too.
I posted this question precisely to avoid having too many aliases. I'd like the equivalent of "dialing 0" from your hotel room phone, and getting redirected by the front desk based on your request.
Similar and it's the gist of it. Understanding something well enough to teach it to someone who doesn't, some people seem to be able to learn enough to get by but not teach others what they are supposed to know.
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You're using (0,0) as reference to move the cube but IMO you should use ( width/2, height/2 )
This "apathy" will bring consequences far worst than the spying itself; before long corporations will be able to trade and black mail using the information collected by NSA.

Call me tinfoil hat or whatever, but corporations always grab as much power as they are allowed (heck! many have been affiliated with paramilitary groups), so it will be just a natural step when american corporations start blackmailing and racketing international politicians in order to force the approval of laws on their behalf.

Plus all the other benefits that a mass surveillance can bring: Learning secrets from the international competition, learning about deals before they happen (some kind of insider trading far worse than anything we have seen so far)
I agree that this case has received much more publicity than it deserves. But I also agree with mindcrime's point, admire the student's actions, and am grateful to live in a country where the consequences to the student are likely to be mild.
>he had to go through mortgage default to get a modification on his loan.

When you take this modification into account, his investment might not look so bad.

But I agree with your general point. I was also taught the middle-class fuzzy thinking that paying rent is "throwing money away".
Sometimes an extra option is desired by companies like carriers just so they can pit all the options against each other and get better deals. Similar happens in the OEM space. An OEM may be happy with Qualcomm, but they are going to flirt with NVIDIA and use them occasionally just to get better deals from Qualcomm.
Maybe a new language and data model? Could anyone suggest things like Hadoop or other big data bits I could get my teeth into?
You can only do as much
People are varied just about everywhere. I've also spent a bit of time overseas and one attitude I rarely find and sometimes miss is the American style rock-n-roll fuck authority I'm gonna do what I want attitude. There are similar attitudes elsewhere, but they're a bit different than the American one.

And I agree, in Asia, it's very absent. I used to be surprised when I'd see an interview with some very hard rock band in Asia and they'd spend the interview quietly bowing and talking more or less like the proper primped pop-idol they just had on. It felt like the rock image was just a costume rather than being the free spirit of the person coming out. I've seen so many occasions in Asia where a situation called for an American style go fuck yourself response and it never appeared. I think a great many of the social ills you find in Confucian countries could be resolved with a sprinkle of American style rock and roll.

You're right though, taking that kind of life approach in Asia can be a life destroyer. In America there's enough of a critical mass of people who have and understand that kind of approach to life, and accept it in others, that you can be that way and find enough of a support network to still live a good life.

Europeans, in my observation, have a different kind of attitude. It's more of a fuck the old guard, fuck the status quo attitude that's probably informed by the last couple hundred years of European history. It can take on many of the same kinds of symbols and stylings as the American rock n roll way, but I think it has different goals and expected outcomes.

I also agree that the American attitude, while good for some things, can become boring and tiresome when it turns into stupid contrariness for the sake of being oppositional.
> making the average investment smaller and the average investor more conservative and wary

X Million dollars are worth the same regardless of the owner (US vs EU). On the other hand a smaller average investment size should make the deals so much more lucrative and a turf worth defending.

Edit : on second thoughts it may have more to do with the cultural issues(as you pointed it out) combined with the regulatory boundaries e.g. amazon.de can't deliver half the things to Switzerland.
Now if only US can maintain that. The trend is certainly not in its favor. Corrupt media who doesn't tend to cover stuff that truly hurt the government's power, the rise of the police/SWAT state, the rise of the surveillance state, the upcoming conflict over what drones can or can not do in US, and so on.
it's worse even more then. An example should show a GOOD practice.
Take a look at Zabbix, lots of features from the base package, no plug-ins needed, free: http://www.zabbix.com/
Yes -- I've edited my post to include links to the actual .torrent files now.
Who has empathy for the empathic? At some level we all project our own issues and past experiences onto our picture of empathy. Meaning just because you can imagine how you would feel in a situation, doesn't mean that your subject feels the same. Empathy should season the dish of human interaction, not be the main course. Thanks for reading this.
Renting costs just about as much as owning. Using my neighborhood as an example a co-worker rents a house of similar size one street over from the one I own. We both pay roughly $1,200 per month.

The big difference is my interest is tax-deductible and I will always get at least something back from my investment. From a finance/economics perspective: Owning home > renting. Obviously.
He complains that people keep bugging him for evidence to Support his views without having the expertise to evaluate what evidence even means. And then he snarks that Julian assange is working for Russia without offering a shred.

http://tomnichols.net/blog/2013/08/02/snowden-manning-and-sc...

Right wing blowhard indeed.
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>> Second-guessing their doctors and refusing to vaccinate their kids after reading stuff written by people who know exactly zip about medicine.

>This claim was originally by an expert doctor.

Andrew Wakefield was no expert. He was found guilty of research fraud and is no longer allowed to practice medicine.
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Obviously I was referring to basic needs, not to the latest 100-pack of Hot Wheels Color Shifters.
Keep it as simple as possible. One email address for everything and expand as time goes on. I usually do contact@.
- No it's not.

- Realizing that there always something more than you know is the most important skill.

- Everything else is a consequence.
If you really just want one email for everything, go with team@mydomain.com. All the other choices imply a purpose for the email (e.g., first contact or help with a problem).
I agree, as others have pointed out, that the exact numbers differ based on location as well as situation (mortgage size, etc.) and in some cases it is better to buy vs. rent.

However, I think it was a good video because it does an apples-to-apples comparison and clears up a misconception that many people have about buying. In part 2 of the video he sums it up pretty well "You are not a home owner until you have no debt. Until then, you are a paying rent on the money you owe instead of the place you live - you are a money-renter".

Evident from the comments here on HN as well as the blog post, many people mistakenly believe that monthly payment in a buying situation all goes towards equity or "savings". But after 30 years, the buyer would still owe $1M on the house - he hasn't saved any money at all. Reading some of the comments, it's almost scary that people about to spend a huge amount on a home don't understand this!
What you are asking for is the "management" of distributed unencrypted data - it's probably impossible, but likely a major rethink in how we distribute data.
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As an urbanite myself I find this quite endearing.
Scraping = extracting data from a third-party website. Even if you had a site on a specific course, fetching data for a single resource, it's still scraping.
I also tell the people that ask for my advice that it is ok to live in a $500/month shithole if it means you get to do what you love. Don't accept what people expect of you (nice house, car, etc) do what you want to do if at all possible.
Pick an easy to spell first name e.g. pat@mydomain.com
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">Pretty much the definition of a toxic workplace?"

Yes, definitely.

To try and start answering my own question above, I think there were two main factors that created that situation.

* Lack of Accountability - Our deadline didn't really matter, it wasn't tied to anything concrete and the project wasn't backed with a very strong case either. It was an arbitrary promise at the executive level, a resume builder. Failing to meet it would cost at most some amount of internal embarrassment at the CXO level.

* Loyalty as Currency - Like I said in the first post, we had to appear to suffer for the executive. That's what the place was about, serving the person you work for. Not necessarily being faster, smarter or even genuinely working harder, just being a "team player" and "on board" with the vision from on high.

(Every time I hear someone talk about the importance "culture fit" in reference to start-ups I'm reminded of this.)
Email is just fine. It lets you address things as you like, puts no time pressure on you, and gives you a written record of your discussions. It's also low-overhead and universal.

Don't blame email, if you can't create a few simple inbox filters to manage the cruft for you. It has been many years since people actually suffered from the weight of zillions of spam messages in their inbox. We've largely addressed the spam thing. The non-spam stuff is going to be dumped on you, whether it's in email or phone calls or text messages or instant messages or facebook messages or instagram messages or whatever the fuck it is teenagers are doing these days that makes email "irrelevant".
I'm looking forward to being able to work on a tropical beach while still being in the office.
That doesn't really make any sense. The treaties to stop enriching uranium always offer far more economically in return than a nation gets for doing the actual enrichment. That's how everyone knows it is for weapons. If you would earn $5 doing something yourself and someone offers you $10 not to do it, and you refuse, then you are getting something other than the $5 for it. In this case you are getting weapons production capability, which is why you were offered the extra money not to do it in the first place.
A related gist:

https://gist.github.com/alanhamlett/6604662
Just to clarify on positive/negative limits on a cursor: if the limit number is negative, then the database will return that number of results and close the cursor. No further results for that query can be fetched. If the limit is positive you can leave the cursor open to receive further results, hence the option for both. (see http://stackoverflow.com/a/11995057/1148648)
At the end of the 30 years, the buyer in the video would not own the house. He would still owe $1M in order to own the house (if the market is good, the house could very well be worth more than $1M, but that is besides the point).

The amount that he was paying monthly goes towards paying off interest on the loan, property taxes, etc. only.
What I have always disliked about this quote is that it implies that the external world is fixed, and that the task of the individual is to merely accept what is presented to him/her without regard to that persons own desires and inclinations.

It implies that who you are is something that is determined in advance.

I'm not writing this from an "elite" perspective. I am a self taught coder from a working class background. When I left school I was basically flung into work that I found soul destroying and depressing. At the time, I felt totally lost and wanted to kill myself.

I didn't want to be the best at that. I wanted to be a computer programmer and use my creativity and intelligence.

Now, according to "external" measures I should have accepted my lot. I was from a working class area where university was unknown and I did badly at school due to bullying and an undiagnosed learning disability. But for some unknown reason I had absolutely no interest in anything that was on offer in the world around me. I only wanted to be a hacker, like those cool Californian dudes I read about in computer magazines.

In those early years I had a terrible time trying to convince those around me that I should be a programmer. I was accused of being lazy, awkward etc, all because I did not want what was immediately presented to me as my future. Once I had enough success to be able to call myself a programmer, it was a different story! I was hard-working, clever etc. Everything changed as soon as I was able to bring concrete expression to my inner vision.

In coming to terms with this, I came to realize how few people really understand the notion of self-direction. They conflate it with egoism, complain about "special snowflakes" etc. because they are coming from a worldview that regards the external world as fixed, and the task of the individual being to fulfill a role imposed from outside.

Subjectivity is a mystery to them, shadowy and morally suspect. A few of them are forced to confront it eventually. You read about them in self-help books, having to go away to "find themselves" whereas "special snowflakes" like me have always known their "selves" as the foundation of their experience, and struggle instead to move the bulk of the world in order to express it.
This is definitely a good and much required resource. You should look at also adding components for iOS and Android as well.
This title reminds me of the line, "Nobody goes to that bar. It's too crowded."[0].

I'm not sure why people love to insist that "email is broken" Email does its job remarkably well. In 2014, it's one of the only communication forms that's truly open, 100% cross-platform, and free-as-in-both-beer-and-freedom. If there's something more you need, it's easy to write (or extend) a client that handles your email according to whatever logic you set up.

The main complaint that I hear about email is that "we get too much of it". But that has little to do with email itself, and more to do with how much we do these days. The pace of business in 2014 is faster than the pace of business in 1964, and I'd wager that if you compared the volume of email today with the volume of paper mail then, the increased velocity of transactions would account for almost all of the difference.

Rather than trying to "fix" email by replacing it or extending the protocols in incompatible ways, let's work on creating clients that do what we want them to do.

[0] Currently the title is "Email is Broken: People Sent 67 Trillion Emails in 2013", though I suspect that this may be reverted soon, given the HN policy.
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I prefer companyname@domain.com because I've noticed that sometimes in gmail and other mail clients the email address is rendered as just the local part (the part before the @ sign), and I want customers to see something meaningful instead of just "hello" or "contact".
The worst assumption here is that you're gonna pay your bond off over 30 years. I payed my house off in 5. It's also an access bond, meaning, even though it's "payed off" it's not closed and I can use the money in there like a savings account, withdrawing and depositing back in later as I want. Essentially I'm my own "bank" now paying whatever interest my bond currently has, which is usually a whole lot lower than a credit card. If I had to calculate the interest I'm saving over the next 20 years which I can now freely speculate with it trumps renting.
naemon is a fork of nagios 4.0 done by the developer that commited 95% of the Nagios codebase: http://naemon.github.io/

His "release" from being a core nagios developer is another interesting story, he talks about it some here (some nsfw language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgbbyyNIiHc
As someone who recently bought, if the decision is an investment in housing vs an investment in other things don't buy a house!

On the other hand, if what you want is a place to live that you can redecorate, remodel and change however you like then you can't beat buying. Where I live you can't do anything to the fittings and fixtures without the landlord's permission.

Given my local housing market I tripled my floor area buy buying for same monthly payment, but that's not true everywhere.
When it comes down to it, there are way to many variables to consider in anyones equation. Some people prefer owning and others prefer renting and whatever you think is better might be better in your situation. I've been around a lot of "owners" telling "renters" that they are throwing away their money. I've never heard a "renter" say that to an "owner" even though this video points out that it could be the case in certain scenarios. It's just a different perspective based on the time that the video was recorded.
I always thought the main difference between buying and renting was tax, since mortgage payments are tax deductible.
Sure, but some of those non-working categories (in particular, students and retirees) could arguably go into the workforce if sufficiently motivated, and might be assumed to be a small portion of the population. Children seems more unequivocal - and thus deserving of calling out specially (while remembering that this is in addition to those other categories).
I partially agree with the university's reasoning on this; displaying course ratings like it's a food menu is disencouraging thought, not something you expect from an academic environment, and it can't have a good outcome regarding course selection. They just should have found a better way to combat that instead of brute force.
I always assume I can reach someone at support@domain.com. That's the only one I assume.
Actually, don't forget about stenographers. Court stenographers must type at least 225 WPM. It seems it's not keyboards in general are slow, just the particular kind we have today.
good point! Thanks, will look into it
Yes, but those are included in the rent price. Whereas, in a buying situation it would be on top of the price you think you'd be paying.
I'm an American who lives in Europe, and, without any antipathy, I think you're very wrong in your relative assessments of the two places.
On the process side, it's a few system calls, and operating system always have this code at hand, does not need to load anything (that's what slow).
Scraping = extracting data from a third-party website.

That definition would seem to include some journalistic quotes.
Not to be pedantic, but Piñera at this very moment is still governing and Michelle Bachelet has not taken his post yet.
I think you are also suffering from the error of focusing entirely on one aspect of the problem and ignoring the others.

Forced saving, and cost-benefit analysis are both factors that should be taken into account. Your claim that a person is entirely incapable of saving unless they have a mortgage is a bit extreme.
This does only work if the system guarantees that you'll reach whatever you set out to do. I don't think that is the case most of the time. Even in his example:

> In the last 12 months, I've written over 115,000 words. The typical book is about 50,000 to 60,000 words, so I have basically written two books this year.

No, he hasn't written two books. A book is usually not a collection of random articles, but has a clear structure.
Furthermore, only writing the book will never get it published. Whether one wants to self-publish or work with a publisher, both things will need a significant time/work investment at various points in time, and will most likely not be covered in his (initial) system.

Similarly, if you wanted to launch a software business, you'd probably create a system that includes writing software. If you're good, it may also include talking to users. If you'd forget about your goal and just followed that system, you'd never launch. Even if you arrive at a state where you want to release your software, you need to (consciously) break your system and care about one-off tasks like setting up a company, terms of service and what-not.