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> AFAIK Sandstorm was way out ahead of its competitors in this space

I think of those listed projects only few are backed by for-profit entities (like sandstorm itself). Cozy in particular seems very well funded (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cozy-cloud#/entity).

I also think the alternatives link is a bit misleading because those projects aren't really direct alternatives. I have investigated a bit in this space (for my personal hosting):

* Cozy is simply for a personal server for email/contacts. This is more like ownCloud. It's not meant for hosting internet facing websites.

* Sandstorm is sort of trying to build a Google Docs style portal. People share these docs with each other. This is why it has a "frame" around every doc/app. It's also not meant for hosting internet facing websites (by this i mean, it is not optimized for hosting your personal public blog).

* Bitnami is 1-click images for opensource apps. I am guessing their main user base is people who want to install a stack quickly. It's a glorified docker pull or curl.

* Cloudron is about running apps on a server. This is automation (ssl, backup, install/update etc) of what you would be doing today, if you have to setup a server and install apps like rocket.chat, gitlab etc. Cloudron uses docker for the apps. Yunohost does the exact same thing without docker.
Prime candidates for sure but I don't know about prime position as they clearly had a lot of ground to make up on the tech. I agree with you on the hyper-aggressive business tactics, I bet there was an Aha! moment where they were like..wait, what if we get rid of the drivers?!
They've certainly taken rhetoric classes. They just have the slight problem that they have near-zero facts on their side. Of course, they're decent enough rhetoricians to shift fully into meta-level philosophical sophistry when that gets brought up, but that's... not helpful against those of us who recognize sophistry as such.
Exactly and not to mention, people aren't the only thing that needs to be taxied around.
Interesting. What 'modules' are they going to push webtech to? Within the general UI or as subcomponents like the 2015 search add-in?
Could you provide a link to your library?
To my knowledge, making cross-platform performant listviews is quite the challenge. I remember listening to a lot of xamarin engineers talk about the fickle performance gotchas with using them.

The platforms have different ways of exposing various attributes about list and list-items. The API designers then must focus on the trade-off of user friendliness vs control and performance. Thus far it's been about user friendliness, but now they are wading in the waters of control/performance.

That's the reason why there are multiple list views being added, instead of just a single one.
Recently, there was a picture of a young guy with a MAGA Trump cap hate all over the Internet. Turns out I knew the guy and was one of the brightest chaps I've met in terms of research. I went to check his posts on Facebook which was filled with bigotry and rhetoric. I haven't engaged with him but I don't know how to react.
> Were they going to buy and operate a fleet?

I don't see what's the problem with that.
Another big bombshell is that apparently Google laptops store every single thing you do on it, including whether you attach a USB drive, etc. That's pretty scary if you're an employee.
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A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.

--Palindrome
> How can you create a stable product that targets a constantly breaking API (short of picking a version and sticking with it)?

You don't. This is a cost they explicitly push on consumers of the API. As a consumer, you either spend manpower to keep up-to-date, or if you don't have that luxury, you fall behind and update sporadically.

In the open source world for example, there are many volunteer driven projects that use stale versions of LLVM for exactly this reason. This causes a certain amount of churn since projects that don't maintained end up bit-rotting much more quickly than they would otherwise.

This has been the de-facto way of things with LLVM for some time, but at least they're making it explicit now.
Hopefully some day an implementation in something other than Go will emerge. The current Go implementation is mind-numbingly slow and uses huge amounts of memory.
Memories made are highly subjective as you can only remember things you've perceived, and our sense of perception is highly distorted.

Some people have a better memory than others, and most people prioritize what they remember in significantly different ways. They may be good with names, bad with faces, or vice-versa. They might not remember particular dates, but will remember the weather.

Even people with a very good photographic memory might be blind to things. What song was playing there? What did they say to you? Did the place smell like anything in particular? What were you feeling at the time? What was the temperature like? Was there a draft? It's rare to find someone who's paying attention to everything, all the time, and taking notes mentally.
Ask HN: Stick with Flask or Learn Ruby on Rails?
I have a hobby project I have been working on for years now. When I started it I had just learned some Python & was trying my hand at dynamic webdev with flask. I've jumped off it & onto other projects over the years but have recently decided it is a great idea that I want to focus on & bring to the mainstream.

There is way too much 'learning cruft' everywhere in my code and some functionality I want to changed so am starting fresh with some more recent boilerplate. My problem started when I went to update dependencies & found that several of the flask extensions I rely on have not been updated in a very long time (years). And adding salt to the wound is I have found several of them have been forked by someone saying like 'i had to fix this thing about the original extension so just made my own copy of it'. i honestly can't tell if flask & it's extensions are just so rock solid that they don't need to be touched or if half of it is just abandoned or in maintenance mode.

so, ruby on rails. I am a one-man shop and don't have time to be keeping up with my framework and I love the idea that there is a committed group out there making sure this framework stays updated and on top of any issues. i like that every thing I could need to do with my app has been well thought out and thorough documentation/tutorials provided for it. i can't help but think that investing a few weeks to convert my knowledge of python/flask to ruby/rails is going to save me months on the back-end. but i'm really afraid to let go of all the time i have invested in the flask-version of my app. all the query syntax and work-arounds and utility functions i have built up will all need to be converted over. it seems like a horribly daunting task. my gut tells me it would be worth it but my mind tells me to just move forward with what I have and deal with the consequences when/if they get here.

HN, what would you do?
I am equally disappointed when people use moral arguments. The problem is: your morals != my morals. Utilitarianism gives you much more of an objective measure of something, which everyone can discuss on the same premises. This (hopefully) removes the need to resort to the pissing contest that is emotional appeals.
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This includes people who decide not to have coverage because they figure they don't need it. Even with the "surcharge", if you can go 4 months without using insurance, it's cheaper to drop it and then only pay for it when you need it. I would guess that saves those individuals a lot of money, even if it raises rates for people who use their insurance on a more regular basis.

I guess what I'd like to see from the report is a breakdown along economic lines. Is it that healthy, relatively well-off people are dropping it to save money? Or is it mostly poor people who can't make the increased payments?
those who already have houses will probably vote against it, as this will devalue their properties.

new comers who don't have a house yet usually don't have the right to vote either.
your best bet is to filter out meme subs
What happened with Uber's Pittsburgh research facility? I thought that was the hub for their self-driving car program?

http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/uber-carnegie-mellon-partnersh...
"Mumps" is a pretty awful name to use for the purposes of healthcare software. You might as well call your database system "Cancer".
Checkout Byteball. I think it has a strong future and the technology is novel. https://Byteball.org
I have an honest question as I was not familiar National Foundation for American Policy before today.

Does anybody know how they are funded in general or who funded this study?

From some cursory research I see that Stuart Anderson, the person behind the NFAP worked on the Hill in the INS Office of Policy and Planning during the first term of George W. Bush. And his organization now regularly releases studies on public policy. This kind of screams lobbyist to me or at least retained by lobbyists.

I am not making any judgements on anything in the study or any statements about the current political climate I am just trying to read critically. I am curious to hear what other's might know about Stuart Anderson or the NFAP.
Have you ever gone camping for an extended time (week or two)? Real camping, where you don't have access to any screens, and filled with daytime activities (such as fishing or hiking)? If so do you still end up wanting to stay up till past midnight, and sleep till noon?

I've found that if there are no major artificial light sources, and if I've been outdoors active all day, I tend to want to fall asleep soon as its dark. And I wake up way earlier, soon as the daylight starts to hit the tent.
> Does it matter if they stop visiting the site?

You can have all the ads you want, but if people aren't visiting your site - and sharing links to it, talking about what they read there, recommending it to others - they're not going to get you much revenue.
For Trump to make such a claim, he would (presumably) need reasons. I would sincerely hope that his reasons are more than simply "I read it on my friends blog"
https://blog.keras.io/building-powerful-image-classification... is what you want.
React Native doesn't render UI in a web view as a webpage, instead it uses native components. Some are direct wrappers around their native counterparts, but some components while native are "emulated", eg. ListView is built on top of a native plain view.

Lists (e.g. UITableView on iOS) are one of the most complex UI components on mobile and might be hard to wrap nicely across iOS and Android, so my guess is they just didn't have time to do it right.
The cause of high housing costs which is known to economists is market inefficiencies or market failures called "rent-seeking" in this case the use of politics through zoning density restrictions to create artificial scarcity in the housing supply. Special interest groups (in this case landlords/land owners) pass these zoning laws to make their land artificially inflated and making tenants and new home buyers pay more than they would in an efficient market for housing.

The fix is really simply: combat the special interests and pass laws prohibiting the rent-seeking. Repeal zoning laws that are overly restrictive.

Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser discusses this in papers you can download. FT Columnist with BS, MS Economics Tim Harford discusses this in his book, "The Undercover Economist."

Not certain why people are proposing new solutions when the solution is already known. Helps if people study economics.
There's above-tolerance load, and then there's misapplication. A good tool might work beyond tolerance, but a great tool should "fail early" if it can tell it's clearly being misapplied.

You don't want space-shuttle O-rings that fray under high tension; you want space-shuttle O-rings that fray under low tension, because they're never supposed to be under any tension and so incorrect installation that puts tension on them should result in them shredding apart before they ever get out of the factory.
In the U.S. it is illegal for employers to hire illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants have trouble finding work and the majority of them work in low-skill, low-pay jobs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/majority-of-undocumente...

Illegal immigrants generate much less economic activity per person than their legal immigrant counterparts.
Support for amnesty and lighter policies against undocumented immigrants comes from both sides of the aisle in CA -- a significant portion of California's economy comes from agriculture in the Central Valley, and almost 100% of the workers there are undocumented. They're a huge net contributor to California's economy.

http://nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-backed-t...
> Flight arrival and departure times

As a former commercial pilot, we use UTC exclusively when flight planning and reporting waypoints - no matter where we are in the world.

When I report that we expect to reach waypoint 'X' at 0451, then anybody listening in ANYWHERE in the world knows exactly how long before I get there, or how long overdue I am. No ambiguity whatsoever.

To this day, in my new life as a developer, I ensure that all my servers are set to UTC and I always use UTC as my time reference datum.
>"it is generally accepted that literacy rates in the United States were quite high before compulsory schooling was mandated starting in the 1840's."

This is why I wrote "Public Education or something like it". We need education systems for literacy, however it does not to be compulsory or public if nearly everyone uses it and can afford it. It seems unlikely that these two conditions (affordable and widely used) would be met in our present society without public funding of education.

Note that in that article you link to they say that Southern Whites in the 1860s had a "56.4%" literacy rate.
Going public just got tougher for Uber. With a big lawsuit with merit hanging over them, their IPO value drops considerably. Underwriters don't like open-ended liabilities like that.
CRNA includes an "eject" command similar to CRA's. So anyone could eject to bare React Native (like react-native init) if they want or need that option.
In other words, "one standard for me and another for thee".
As a publisher, I've made the decision to sell advertising in monthly blocks like a magazine would as opposed to an eyeball-based auction system. Anecdotally, I think this deters me from trying to maximize how much money can be made off of every eyeball that visits my website.

I also sell and self-host my own advertising which can only be non-animated jpgs/pngs which gives me ultimate judgement. There is a barrier to entry on this style of ad sales, but overall I feel like it has been worthwhile pursuit so far in the 3 or so years I've been doing it.
Yeap that's the project :)

We have our own llvm backend which is a front end to our own "specialiser".

We use csmith to fuzz for compiler bugs and creduce to reduce them. This starts with C and we even validate the output of the sim against clang x86 output.
Based on Microsoft's recent decision and some other rumors ARM on server might reduce Intel to only 90+% over the next few years but that's nearly the same cashflow.
There is also a need to find interesting threads outside a known list of subs, or to filter out some parts of otherwise good subs.
> But how trustworthy are Google Drive logs, a record that only exists within Google, when what they've recorded helps their case?

Routinely-kept business records are common evidence in cases, and, while any evidence is subject to impeachment, "it supports the case of the party keeping the records" is almost never sufficient to get a trier of fact (jury in the case of a jury trial) to dismiss the evidence; you generally need either some more concrete evidence of fabrication or independent evidence contradicting the conclusion the evidence is offered to support.

Google Drive logs are fundamentally no different than email, or even paper business records, in this context.
I'd help you write. Or at least edit. :)
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It's more than that. If the daylight saving laws change in the zone you're interested in, the round trip from local to UTC to local again can be off even if your database is up to date and your timezones are correct. Converting from local to UTC using the old rule then UTC to local with the new rule will really mess you up.
There's a docker image floating around somewhere out there that gets a VistA install up and running.
I've been on the Internet since before advertising became common, and I am not convinced that advertising is the only, or even a good, model for funding either content or infrastructure.

The move to advertising as the basis for the Internet has hidden, at least from most users, the cost of running a website and putting content online, which is frankly quite low compared to what it used to be, both in terms of actual money and the time/effort/experience required.

While in the mid/late 90s running a website could be a financially risky proposition (there are all sorts of semi-funny horror stories about people who ran labor of love sites that got Slashdotted and ended up with hundreds of dollars in bandwidth bills), today you can stand up a VPS on a Gigabit connection that's capable of serving orders of magnitude more users than most sites will ever see for a few bucks a month. I don't think that is necessarily a bad entry point for a communications platform that lets you talk to a significant percentage of the global population in one shot.

I'm not convinced that having the dominant model be "labor of love" as opposed to "make $$ off advertising" is necessarily worse or would result in less quality content. The advertising-driven model has given us clickbait and even machine-written garbage articles, link farms, etc., none of which would really exist under a publisher-pays model. There are significant hidden costs to the ad-based model, which are externalized on all players, including hard-to-define costs of privacy in terms of the way major players are incentivized to build detailed dossiers on users in order to improve ad targeting.
You know California is a net contributor to the federal government, right?

By your argument, California could easily afford to pay for it if only Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Montana, and Kentucky were not "mooching" off of it.
Ex-Epic developer here.

MUMPS is older than SQL, so preSQL might be more appropriate than NoSQL.

There were moments of joy programming M, and the performance, scalability, and HA aspects of the Intersystems implementation don't hurt Epic one bit in the sales process.

At Epic, there are so many abstractions away from M that you might start to think you're working in another language. You never set globals in production code, instead using Epic's homegrown ORM to define schemas for your data.

At the end of the day, lack of first order functions and any other data structure other than the B-tree array makes for fun problem solving, but not necessarily clean and concise code.
They were hoping for a combination of first-mover advantage and recognizable brand name / known player.

If you're used to taking an Uber on occasion, taking an AutoUber isn't a big deal, just like trying a new coffee at Starbucks.

Even if GM is selling L5 autonomous cars to everybody in 2025, they're going to cost as much as a car does. Why buy it when you can pay by the ride? And Uber wants to be the name you think of when summoning a ride.
Vancouver and Melbourne I can understand, but I'm amazed that there are people in the developed world that haven't heard of San Francisco.

That city has been part of the American "brand" for decades; from hippies, free love, Vietnam protesters and gay rights, to the dot-com boom and more recent startups. Add some destructive earthquakes, plenty of American films and music, and the international press whenever a startup does something bad.
Agreed.

It's like No True Scotsman fallacy but applied in converse in terms of "true immigrant".

Camp is an immigrant. Case closed.
A huge chunk is the repeal of Medicaid expansion.
https://github.com/cgarduno1garduno/Macbook-Security/blob/ma...

I found this issue a while back on Macbooks. I'll update my github soon with more details and some images to demonstrate the process. I read this post and I figured I could whip something together and see what people think.
DIY Smart Home Security? Meh
It definitely looks interesting.. may play with it on DO or Linode this weekend, if I remember to do so...
What 10X looks like: Why is $8,400 10x $8,333?
Lots of people just get a Ph.D to have a higher starting salary and avoid a possible glass ceiling later on. I'm planning on doing exactly that. It depends on the job market in your location though.
"Uber will pay as much as $25 million to settle a civil lawsuit with the district attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/technology/uber-settles-s...

"Uber settles driver lawsuit over background checks, to pay $7.5 million"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-lawsuit-idUSKCN0Z12GS

"Uber has agreed to pay $28.5 million to settle litigation brought by customers who alleged the ride hailing service misrepresented the quality of its safety practices and the fees it charged passengers"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-safety-settlemen...

Need more?
It's not problematic at all. But it would require Uber to cease being a software company and start being, like, an actual taxi service, with physical assets and vehicles and garages and maintenance. The whole reason Uber is competitive with actual taxi services is that those costs are all offloaded to the poor saps who drive for them.
Yes all countries should all have the same laws and culture!
Other than going to the DMV once a few years, buying a house and flying, I rarely if ever use a government service that isn't transit. When I first come in I use a lot of government services, such as getting a bank account and an SSN, but that is a one time process that happens when your legal.
>Yes, the website says "unstoppable uncensorable contracts" and we stopped one. Congratulations. Let me direct you to Ethereum Classic.

"Our unregulated-free-market-dream-but-still-controlled-by-a-group-with-financial-interests-in-it cryptocurrency has two fundamentally incompatible versions, and may very well fork into a third at the whim of Ethereum's developers"

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Far fewer people in the past graduated Highschool as well. For instance only 50% of students graduated Highschool in the 1950s. As of 2008 the Highschool graduation rate is 80%.
People are down voting, the but the assessment is a correct one: California citizens need to elect responsible politicians that spend money on people who live in the the US and CA legally instead of those illegally. If they elected responsible politicians that understood this, they would have their train funded.

Taxes should be only spent on people living in the US legally. Not certain why people have a problem with that.
Can you call it organic?
True, thanks. I thought the proof I knew of Cantor only worked for infinite sets, and that a separate proof was required for the finite case; but actually the same proof works for both.
Kiro,

Here's how I solved a similar problem in my deep learning class. Instead of classifying between 10 animals you would just have 3 possible labels.

https://github.com/hermiti/deep_learning_project_2/blob/mast...
>Most make their money in the finance or service department. It was not uncommon for a loan to be 5-6 years long

Yeah, but with the extremely low interest rates we've been seeing the past several years, how are they making money there either?