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I'd rather you answered the question instead of dodging it. However here are a few off the top of my head, I'm sure there are many more reasons for it and reasons against, but that is why I asked in the first place.

- There are several popular, well maintained, hosted VCS providers, such as GitHub, who have good bandwidth, and host open-source projects for free. Nice as most open-source projects are unfunded.
- A VCS gives you traceability in what's changing in your package repository 'for free' - nice when you open it up to contributors.
- A git-based package repository can be kept locally in relatively little space, allowing for the case where the package repo host goes down - I've had issues with being unable to install from PyPI in the past because it's down, I have not had that issue with git-based repositories, for example (not a perfect comparison).
- A VCS based repository can aid in creating a system where a given state of the repo is consistent, and works together, and can be upgraded atomically. Stackage is doing something like this, providing a known working set of packages at any given release (although I'm not sure if they are backing that concept with a VCS).
> The current vertical integration of internet providers impedes any new competition

Wouldn't the government owning the service be the ultimate impediment to new competition?

I'm not defending ISPs, but lets not too quickly throw them under the bus.

Also, your casual throw-away comment:

> Most services that lend themselves to a natural monopoly ... should be implemented as a publicly run infrastructure

Requires the government forcibly taking over quite a few large companies.

That's a weighty request, and would be exactly the opposite of what we should want to see in the world.
You mean re-write the manual? It seems their goal is to seriously have people write the manual vs just posting "RTFM"
If your goal is to find an answer to your question, then getting a link to a duplicate question that presumably already has good answers seems at least as good as getting your own answers.
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Ok, but you still can't respond like that. The rules apply regardless of whether someone else started it or was behaving worse. Otherwise everyone would have an excuse for everything, since it always feels like someone else started it.
Does anyone doubt that the real goal of "Documentation" is just page views?

I have nothing bad to say about SO as a Q&A site. I stopped answering years ago, yet I've benefited from it easily ten times a day. And when I recently asked my first question in years, on a Saturday, I got a single, correct answer from an expert (edit, I mean, the author of a published book on SQL) within an hour.[0]

But the OP's question reminds me a little bit of how people talk about the US Congress. How come these high achievers never accomplish what they went there to do? Well, maybe they're extremely good at doing what they really intend.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39056483/can-constant-loo...
Oh yeah, that's a very good point.
According to the report on NPR, they are inmates would have served more time than they would if they were convicted today (due to changes in sentencing guidelines or criminal classifications). It seems to me like we should default to releasing such people or it should at least not require something as powerful as a presidential pardon.
Why not implement it as a QOTD service?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QOTD
How would this program look like translated to Haskell?
What about import.io?
So, its like Wikipedia with voting and ads?
Are users shared between apps?
k8s LoadBalancers are designed to be used in the cloud: AWS GCP etc...

As a workaround you can create a service and then tunnel/proxy the service ClusterIP from the master

Kubernetes absolutely supports baremetal. It's one of it's greatest strengths, no lock-in.
I started wondering how wash.io had seemingly driven out so much local business, and thought: perhaps they were undercutting the opposition - cleaning at cost or less - in order to build market share?

Their website is still showing prices:

- $2.15/lb Wash+Fold (min 15lb, so $32.25 minimum)
- $2.75 shirt
- $6.69 t-shirt
- $7.79 sweater

Plus a $5.99 delivery charge.

I'm not all that familiar with laundromat prices in the USA, but the few truck-stop laundromats I used were much cheaper than this (admittedly I'd have to fold my own clothes).

On the face of it, they weren't competing with local laundromat services - not on price, at any rate. If they were competing for business, it was with the cash-rich, time-poor market segment. I'm skeptical that wash.io really drove that many local laundromats out of business, and if a significant number of laundromats happened to go out of business at the same time, it's worth exploring whether there were other market forces (such as increased business rents) at play.
I agree, and I think that is a great reason to not "escape 9 to 5."

Much to my point about doing it young, if you are unsure, but you are tempted by the siren song of startup fame and fortune. The hype, glamour, fame and fortune is largely the exception and not the rule. The hard work and the hard lessons are much more the norm. The benefits you might receive are earned, and they are paid for in sweat, stress and sleepless nights.

The bottom-line is that it comes down to knowing yourself. You make a great counterpoint to those that are certain working for themselves, or starting a startup is their path.

If you are uncertain, the best way to confirm it is to test yourself, take the risk.
What made you decide to go to a standalone device? A high-end phone would have the capability to get MVP
Sorry you're entirely right. I just can't get over how unbelievably amazing this is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

One of the best comebacks in HN history.
Same here. It's free, it's incredibly easy to create new addresses, and so far (on the order of a decade) it's been trouble free for me. If you start getting spam any an address you just log in to spamgourmet, switch off the address and you're done. No send-this-plus-address filters to set up at your mail host, no subdomain tricks to fuss over, no need to create spam aliases on your Fastmail account. The only feature that I wish it had is the ability to view a log of where the spam was coming from for each address.
why would a company ever post anything like that on their FB page?
Another important thing to note is that the story of the first microprocessors is one that was largely galvanized and thus dominated by US military investment in the 60s. This bankrolled research in those days, getting ICs out of small-/medium-scale integration (< 500 transistors) into large-scale and onward - at which point Intel, Mostek and others showed up on the scene (circa 1970) to target the commercial market.
Sure but that illustrates my point: applying as much kindness as possible is not what people actually strive for nor would it be a solution. Preventing being taken advantage of takes priority.

Look at my post: I only say you should treat people with kindness. You are saying some nonsense about "applying as much kindness as possible." Is it a habit you have of putting words into another's mouth. This is a Strawman, either intentional or unintentional. It's generally possible to be kind while also protecting yourself. It's only in very extreme circumstances where it's not. Calm, speaking interactions generally do not fall into this category.
A billion times yes. As a developer, I'm going to curate my documentation in the same repo as my source code. And I want my contributors to file documentation PR's to the canonical repo.

I see the whole SO Docs thing a transparent attempt to monetize advertising revenue by thieving attention from the projects they purport to help. Time spent improving the documentation on SO is time not spent improving the canonical documentation curated by the project maintainers.
> Telecom companies like Comcast and Verizon "own" the backbone because they built it.

In Europe most of the backbone has been built by state-run public companies with public money. Only with the wave of privatization in the 90s the EU backbone has become privately owned (for various weird definitions of "privately owned").

However. When the backbone was publicly owned the "broadband" of the time (ISDN) was available to most of the population, including those living outside the big cities and in rural zones. 20 years later the current broadband (fiber) is available only in selected metropolies. The rest is delegate to "market failure" (official term of the trade).

Seeing networks are public infrastructures puts things under a different light. Water, gas, phones and electricity are available everywhere, even where it makes no economic sense, because it makes _human_ sense. Why can't we treat computers networks (access to information) the same? We have been doing it for 40 or so years before the privatizations. After 20 years, why can't we call this privatization experiment failed and go back to the previous state of affairs?
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Absolutely untrue. People learn in different manners, sometimes hearing the same answer, phrased or worded differently, makes all the difference in the world in understanding.

It doesn't hurt anything to answer a similar question again, it benefits the answerer with practice, and helps the questioner with getting the answer they need.
For specific case of backups, apps on cloudron are already encrypted and backed up automatically to your S3 bucket. This happens at a app level, so you can restore apps individually as well.

Though, I think you are asking if we some form data picker between apps. Like ownCloud can expose contacts that can get picked up from some mail app? Most apps these days expose a REST API. For example, GitLab sends notifications to Rocket.Chat via webhooks. I can edit files on ownCloud via webdav from my desktop and my radicale contacts are available via carddav to thunderbird. There's standards in place for each kind of data access and all these go beyond web apps.

From what I have seen, even having a simple data-sharing layer require requires modifications to apps and this is a lot of work. Like sandstorm, cozy.io also has a interesting data layer but they simply decided to just make apps of their own mostly I am guessing (just guessing :-) ) the reason is that it is very hard to modify and more importantly convince existing app authors to take their changes upstream.
Because it's annoying to constantly get new credit card numbers. You have to update all your autopays. You can't get a new credit card instantly. Being denied due to fraud is embarrassing. You may be out of the country and stuck with a non working credit card. It's another thing to deal with.
I feel like SO docs biggest issue is it requires everyone to agree.

On SO q&a you can ask "how do you write hello world in bla". There will be many answers. Those answers get votes. Almost anyone can post an answer if they think they have a better one or can explain better.

On SO docs on the other hand, only one answer is allowed. This removes opportunity and incentive to contribute and adds a kind of bureaucracy and all kinds of issues with their point system that seems like it's going to lead to turf wars and hurt feeling.
Do you know if many remote companies offer part-time work?
"It is no exaggeration to regard this as the most fundamental idea in programming: The evaluator, which determines the meaning of expressions in a programming language, is just another program." -- Abelson & Sussman, SICP.
> Look, I'm not really here to stick up for Ehrlichmann. After all, he did go to jail for some time for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. First of all, that already makes him the least reliable of witnesses, even if he really did say that. Second, he's an easy target for a journalist that wants to sensationalize their story, and instead believing him just because "he's a journalist" is not rational. Dan Baum has written about that interview before and there was never anything close to that damning of a quote. This is why I think this quote is total hogwash. It fits exactly what you want to hear deep down about two bad people: Ehrlichmann and Nixon. Too bad it's likely a fabrication, with zero evidence otherwise.

"likely a fabrication"

"with zero evidence otherwise"

The burden of proof is on you to show that the quote is a fabrication, not on the journalist.

Let's go through it, though.

Going to jail for conspiracy and obstruction of justice makes him a criminal, but not necessarily a liar on techniques the U.S. government used against counterculture.

Secondly, Nixon and his administration did outrageous things. You can hardly dismiss more allegations of outrageous acts as more-likely-to-be-fabricated because it fits pre-existing narrative. That's, like, the opposite of how priors work. "It fits exactly what you want to hear deep down about two bad people: Ehrlichmann and Nixon" -- YES! Nixon and Ehrlichmann were bad people and did bad things. Did they do what Ehrlichmann (allegedly) describes? Who knows, but it isn't an argument against their having done something horrific that they had other horrific policies.

Nixon, you may remember, bugged a Supreme Court justice.
You actually can't get that from the logloss number directly. However, ln(0.5) = 0.693... That's the logloss you'll get if you guessed randomly ie had no edge.
Yup, pretty much exactly.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160727005323/en/

"Amazon Launchpad announced today the creation of a Kickstarter Collection (www.amazon.com/launchpad/kickstarter), featuring more than 300 Kickstarter products available for purchase on Amazon.com"

http://www.amazon.com/launchpad/kickstarter
From the article:

> It’s precisely the insulation from market forces that enables government to finance the long-term scientific labor that ends up producing many of the most profitable inventions.

It's this insulation that allows the government to waste billions and trillions on everything.

Innovation requires smart people and money. Neither of which the government can provide except by taking from the population as a whole. Therefore, the government is entirely unnecessary in the process, and usually quite counterproductive.
One of the tweets links an article that suggests it's more a sign of the general gentrification/housing crisis - with wash.io more like the cherry on top than the real cause:

So why are San Francisco laundromats actually closing down? Two reasons: real estate and the tech boom. There is a shortage of housing in San Francisco, which is a problem exacerbated by the boom in startups and the influx of highly paid employees. The rich want homes, and they're willing to buy the poor out of them.

https://mic.com/articles/123311/
If you have multiple Slacks, it's not. You can cycle through all your connected Slacks with the app.
Transpiler plug ins. ex: Sass to css.
Why would the order of strings need to change? I would assume that if 15=="fizzbuzz" than 105 would be "fizzbuzzfuzz", not "buzzfizzfuzz".
The topic of this post reminds me of the state of 'programming' in the distant future described in the novel "A Deepness in the Sky" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky):

From the article:

> "The Qeng Ho's computer and timekeeping systems feature the advent of "programmer archaeologists": the Qeng Ho are packrats of computer programs and systems, retaining them over millennia, even as far back to the era of Unix programs (as implied by one passage mentioning that the fundamental time-keeping system is the Unix epoch)."
I'm the creator - I would love to hear what people think of what's presented - and also if it could be presented in a better way. Thanks!
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If you want your Internet service to be as responsive to customers as your gas and electric service is today, I supposed you could declare the experiment "failed". As I pointed out, I'm happier with an Internet I can watch movies and make phone calls on than I am with the one that repeatedly netsplit in the 90s.

Incidentally: ISDN was widely available everywhere where there were modern phone-switching networks, because they required very minimal upstream equipment to handle. Essentially, if you had already 5 years ago run copper to a Northern Telecom head unit, you'd basically already deployed ISDN. Every local ISP in the US was able to jam a couple PRIs into some Ascend boxes to provide ISDN just as soon as those boxes were available.

I don't think it's reasonable to compare ISDN to last-mile technologies that require new cables and new block-by-block termination equipment to install.
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Stroke count, pool lap times, if devices has indoor swimming support. Of course this is moot for casual swimmers.

Regarding outdoor swimming support, the device has to support openwater swimming, because then it contains algorithms to smooth out the GPS signal (it goes off when arm goes inside water). Other option is putting the device below the swimming cap, or a swimming bouy that you drag with you.

Heart rate is a different beast. Your Polar worked below water because it used their own proprietary signal that can be recorded under water. Garmin uses ANT+ which doesn't work there.

They do have a special HR belt called HR Swim (and HR TRI for outside swimming), that pairs to device, then records HR on its own while swimming. After workout it uploads the recording to the watch which combines both data together. Only top triathlon devices support those.
It would seem that the issue in dispute is whether a law can be stupid without also violating essential liberty in some way.

I think we can agree that all laws that violate essential liberty are intrinsically stupid.

Let's not examine it too closely, though, lest we uncover that republics may, in fact, be designed to protect the privileges of the land-owning elites from the sheer numbers of the unwashed rabble, and the defense of their essential liberties may only be a beneficial side effect.
People are not "trolling" atom on performance. They are bringing up valid concerns.

Atom runs fast enough on my MBP, but I could never get the packages and plug-ins to consistently play nicely with the corporate proxies and firewalls at my current employer. So, I gave it up in favor of Visual Studio Code. The updates and plug-in installations for Code simply Just Work.
Correct. My android pay says "a virtual number ending in xxxx was used to make this purchase." It would be nice if it was a token instead of an actual credit card number. I have no idea how is implemented.
What you describe is a false positive. We would very much like to know about them.
Wait so Atom uses 825mb of RAM to open a 5mb xml file with no highlighting? (compared to 64mb for Sublime and 34mb for notepad++)

My newish X1 Carbon has 8gb of ram (soldered); this probably means a few Atom instances are enough to use all the RAM...
Agreed! Frameworks, libraries, and APIs are all about tradeoffs. Because they will never make sense for some programmers and use cases, the last line of code will probably never be written... but there's an undeniable trend heading that direction for so many. Thanks for reading.
I'm curious to know which expenses you found you were able to live without easily, and which cuts were actually hard to bear, and why. Thanks for telling your story!
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SO can be great for general problems, but in all truth you can usually find the answers you're looking for with those on "learn to program" sites or even the documentation (especially in regard to Python). I think where SO shines is when you encounter stuff that the documentation or general programming guides don't answer very well. Usually when I encounter a problem like this I google it and lo-and-behold there's an SO post with the same question, with a detailed answer.

I think SO is the best for really specific issues that you encounter where a collective of people can look at the question and one of them goes "oh yea! I had this time problem 2 years ago, here's how you get around that..."

The reward system on SO, however, is structured to answer the easy questions quickly or point out that a question is a duplicate from something answered 5+ years ago (which may only be tangentially related). This isn't helpful. Either let someone else answer the question or provide a useful answer.

One of the best models I've seen for question/answer stuff so far is on Reddit, surprisingly, on the /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians sub-reddits. They actively encourage duplicate questions because sometimes the facts and interpretations change. Much better and more friendly than SO where it quickly digresses into "have you used the search bar?"
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Thanks it works. I also submitted it to Pocket Cast via http://www.pocketcasts.com/submit

As a side note, getting it on iTunes will also auto-submit it to most popular podcast apps, so if you do one thing that should be it.
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In the very paper that you cited to support your position they claim that the "community", "economic" and "family" harm is about three to five times larger for alcohol than for heroin. Which, given that there are more than two orders of magnitude of difference in the prevalence of alcohol and heroin usage, suggest that somehow heroin users are not as harmless as you paint them. The score for "crime" ("beyond the use-of-drug act") is actually higher for heroin than for alcohol.
Doctors are a great example. The federal government pay scale for doctors goes above $300k. Pretty much everyone else tops out around half that.
As systems evolve into higher levels of abstraction, things that we used to consider to be "code" become "data" instead.

For example, in 1950, you would write a lot of code to accomplish what you can do today with a pivot table in Excel (which we don't consider to be "coding"). Page layout you'd write as code in 1996 is now "data" encoded in CSS.

At the same time, things that used to be major code concerns have been abstracted into the underlying systems. Garbage collection, privilege separation, caching, and so on continue to move lower in the stack. The trend toward programming languages that more natively support asynchronicity is another great example.

The better question to ask is: What tasks that we accomplish with code today will be accomplished with data tomorrow?
> Money ... does you very little good if you are completely out of it in a nursing home

Well, there is the question of paying for the nursing home. The sad reality is that the options offered by our social safety nets at lot less attractive than the options available if you can pay for it.

Unless you are completely out of it to the point of not caring, at which point your loved ones may still care though.
Is VMware starting to mean 'legacy'?
Nils Aall Barricelli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Aall_Barricelli (Woefully brief.)

There's a lot about him in "Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson.
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Yes, SSO is one of our main features. You can add users ('Users' in the menu bar). This will send them an invite. You put users in groups and assign groups to apps to indicate who can access the apps. By default, apps are locked to the Cloudron user management but you can also open up apps entirely without using the Cloudron user management (this is preferable for forums, chat etc where you want to get external users). For this, you have to read the Appstore description file usually.

(Some apps like Ghost and Mattermost are not properly integrated because they don't have LDAP in the opensource edition but it works for most apps.)
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(I'm about two-thirds joking)
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