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It's the third time I have to build the whole stack (web+ios+android).

For the first time, I used a webapp and was hoping that the ios/android experience would be good enough. Unfortunately, It wasn't and it was a big mistake. I'd only recommend this for quick mvp knowing that it'll need to be rewritten or if your audience really understand what it means to have a mobile webapp compared to a native app. I.e. if there's an IT department in place that can install it on the devices and understand the limitations.

For the second time, we went with ionic/phonegap. It was a huge improvement, but we hit too many limitations and scenarios where we wanted native tweaking for animations or handling the keyboard hiding fields or the topbar acting weird, etc. You don't see those issues at first.. but they start appearing as you start doing QA on more devices and with real users. And at that point, you've invested so much in trying to make it work that you can't just go back, so you start piling weird hacks on top of weird hacks.

For the third time, we went with react-native. Overall it was a great experience and unlike ionic, it's a real native app, not just a webview. We could reuse a big part of the code between web, ios and android. The issues we faced were often related to weird edge cases that are buggy within react-native itself such as input fields not working correctly when dictating or a "pull-to-refresh" supposed to be stateless but in practice being stateful and buggy if you call "refresh" on it twice within 30ms. However, it's a good feeling to know that when we'll have the time, we have the flexibility to either fix the library itself or re-write it (compared to ionic where we couldn't do much and web apps where the solution to most our problems would be to "wait a few years until the browsers decide to improve it".)

If I had to do it another time (a fourth time), I'd go with react-native again but I would make sure to stress test the libraries with real data on all the devices we'd want to support. Also, it's popular in the javascript ecosystem to have libraries that depend of another library that depends of another library that wraps another library.. in most cases, it's just better to write a quick wrapper for your app and only include the inner-most library that does most of the work anyway. Otherwise you're depending on too many authors and libraries quickly go out-of-sync and you're stuck with old versions that aren't compatible with new ones.
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It's reddit. There's a very good chance most of the content on the entire site is staged, because fake internet points mean something to some people.
Do you share components too? How are you doing styling? I'm using a mix of js variables for different platforms and scss files but I'm finding it kinda complicated. I would like to use styled-components somehow.
Competition is also inherently inefficient though. It involves having at least two organisations doing the same thing, which likely involves a lot of duplicated effort.

It also leads to organisations spending money on things like advertising, which serve little purpose for the consumer, and exist only to improve their position relative to their competitor.

Competition can be better in some cases, but I'm increasingly sceptical of the assumption that it's always better, since it has these downsides.

And I don't think there's any inherent reason why a government organisation can't innovate, they usually just don't have the resources to risk doing anything they can't be sure will work. I suspect there are plenty of people in most government agencies who have ideas about how to make things more efficient, if only they had a bit of flexibility in their budget to try them. This is largely a political issue, not an organisational one.
Kalman filters are wonderful things and great for keeping track of where other things are in relation to yourself. But for localizing my robot I'd generally use a Particle Filter[1] instead to allow me to represent multiple hypothesis about where I am. For example if I see a doorway I know I'm going to be by one of the doorways on the corridor but I won't be able to tell which one without further observation. But if there's a source of absolute but imprecise location, like GPS, then a Kalman filter is a good choice again.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_filter
> None of this makes any sense, I simply don't believe it.

Something similar happened to Josh Marshall, who wrote an article about it: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm:

> So let’s review. We are paying customers of Google. We were forwarding emails from the site’s main address to all staffers. But because we receive a lot of spam, the spam that we were forwarding to ourselves marked us as a major spammer and led to Google banning all our emails with no notice in advance or notification after the fact.

> You might imagine that once we got through to someone at Google and explained this ridiculous situation they’d fix it. Well, no. Once we got through to someone they explained what happened. They told us a few remedial actions we could take. Once we did that, over time the algorithm would cease to think we were spammers.

The article also has this really apt quote for understanding Google and many companies like it:

> Google is so big and its customers and products (people are products) are so distant from its concerns that we’ve gotten caught up in or whiplashed by rules or systems that simply don’t make any sense or are affirmatively absurd in how they affect us. One thing I’ve observed with Google over the years is that it is institutionally so used to its ‘customers’ actually being its products that when it gets into businesses where it actually has customers it really has little sense of how to deal with them.
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There are a lot of possibilities here.

1) it was wired to explode, to cover tracks or harm people.

2) It was fired a long time ago, came through a roof/wall and landed behind a server rack and got buried behind cables. the hole in the wall/ceiling tile got patched and there it sat until someone moved the rack.Possibly with numerous people kicking it or seeing it and not thinking a second thought about what it might be.

3) someone came into possession of it and hid it there because it's a secure location with few people who come by. eventually either they forgot about it or they were not in a position to be able to retrieve it.

4) it's inert and he's pulling everyone's leg

I personally think 4 is most likely, followed by 3 and then 2 and then 1.

edit:

one more possibility, it's IS inert but that is undetermined, so the police err on the side of caution and proceed as if it were live.

edit the sequel:

the police don't know about it. I'm fairly certain this is all bullshit now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17119251
Just for clarification, are you saying that they need to increase efficiency 2% each year?
Helping people is almost never personal either. Doctors help people but it’s nothing personal, only business.

The only thing that defines whether you are a good or bad person, is what you do at a personal level. Even though I may contribute to horrific consequences on a business level, at the personal level I am still a good man.
It looks like the title is absolute clickbait-misleading-almost-lying crap.

They paid Vodafone and Vodafone used the data. "Fair enough" (so to say). No they pay Vodafone and Vodafone and they use the data. "backslash".

You are indeed missing something. The same as I am.
Robert Mueller's 49 Questions to Fall in Love
You jest, but it's worth referencing the "Why explore space?"[1] letter. Penned back during the Space Race, as a response to a nun concerned with apparently wasteful spending, contrasted to poverty suffered by the people she was working with.

On a lighter note: we've put people on the Moon before we've put wheels on the luggage[2]. Exploration before comforts.

[1] http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

[2] https://betafactory.com/what-came-first-wheeled-luggage-or-a...
> I'd love to know that I seem to use way more energy than other people around me. Perhaps I have a bad AC, or my insulation is particularly bad.

Or perhaps you are running too many always-on IoT devices :-) SCNR
FWIW, They talk about the delays at 19m23s in the interview I linked.

From staring at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1299637435/billion-doll... I’d guess they’re still looking for or going through a distributor.
>> You might as well post the page comparing…

They already have! :-)
Opened one randomly, as someone else has reported, it contains one hundred files with zip extension of various sizes, 118 GB total.
Orbital decay means planets were more distant from the sun in the past. As well, solar luminosity was lower. It's also likely that water and has accumulated on, say, Venus. So although not a likely harbor for life now, perhaps Venus was the first batter up for the evolution of life.

Against this, there are definitely other heat sources, especially for large planets, and more water (from impacts carrying water, especially) is available at a greater distance from the sun.
Mention of #savetheexpanse in article is nice dedication of sorts :)
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This is good, but there are some potential problems.

1. Ethiopia's GDP per capita is ~$700 USD, so this growth is from a very low base.

2. Total fertility rate is 4.28. Compare this to China at 1.57 and USA at 1.84. This means that some of the growth just goes to supporting a larger population.

3. I have read elsewhere that you need government connections and a lot of money to do business in Ethiopia. So the benefits of this growth might not be as broad as they otherwise could be.
Your numbers seem off. Traveling in a circle at constant speed implies acceleration of v^2 / r, so, holding acceleration constant and doubling velocity, I'd expect the necessary radius to double. A Wiki article seems to roughly agree with me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_railway_curve_radius#S...

However, from your numbers, 4km * (350 / 300)^2 = 5.4 km, not 7 km. The Wiki article agrees with the 300 km/h => 4km radius data point, but agrees with me for 350 km/h, and actually says 400 km/h => 7 km. Was it a typo on your part, or am I missing something?
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Vanguard Emerging Markets?

Or these?
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/011316/afk-e...
I believe the PC's point is that you're leaning on "never having heard" about Apple committing compatibility fixes before as justification for that not being something they would do, but prior to reading this article, you would have "never heard" about Apple applying compatibility hacks inside their own runtimes either.
Wait, it's not called Public Security, Section 9?
HNBUX: A new blockchain-based currency using HackerNews comments.
I completely agree, it's extremely hard. I can do without Google on my servers at all, and I'm happy about it. On my notebook, it's much harder. On a phone, it's almost impossible, if you have and Android phone. Google is bending over backwards to make you turn on more sensors and gather more data. I recently discovered it's enough to use the Gmail app once with a given e-mail address and it will happily turn on the location service (.i.e. phone tracking) for these accounts, even though you use a completely different account for your phone set up, including Google Play. They want to lay their hands on everything, it's so annoying.
Yup. There are plenty of sensible options that you can buy outright. Plenty of japanese cars will last well over 200k miles. If you can't afford a new car, get a used one. There's a culture in the US that makes us way to comfortable taking out loans.
> you're just exploiting/taking advantage of vulnerable people looking for help and using that to manipulate them into giving you money.

AKA creating value.

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Thank you. I'm a bloody idiot. I'll update.

EDIT: I did all of the other math right except for the annual mileage.
FYI literature means "superior or lasting artistic merit." Maybe you think the latest Product Hunt forum page has superior or lasting merit, but it's hard to argue that anything posted here is artistic.
I've used them in radar with an actual covariance matrix. I know some people use them in robotics but I've always relied on Particle Filters. And a woman I've been dating has used them in her econometrics work and I'm pretty sure she used an actual covariance matrix given the academic context.
That's a Sagger ATGM. For when you really want to make sure that your packets get through the firewall.
Oil changes every ~6 months = $500+ on their own over six years
Natural Language Processing Cheatsheet
>> Also, it would be great to see some Rust vs D benchmarks.

Make those measurements and publish them!

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I find it hard to believe that they set-up the racks and everything without anyone taking notice of a freaking mortar shell lying dormant on the floor.
Any particular reason why nine years instead of the 10 years dommain registrars allow?
I'm joking, but only because people are still writing these articles, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/02/elon-mu...
It's not even that hard. You don't have to solve the problem, you just have to appear to be solving the problem.
What is their financial system like? My guess is not very good. I think most of the gains are going to go to private investors, businesses, and other countries that can afford to invest in large projects.
Well they actually operate at a loss, so it wouldn't be so surprising if you save money using uber instead of owning a car. Magic VC money subsidize your trips ;)
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Meet the Israeli company ready to sell citywide surveillance
Just to throw this out there,

The experience of living in a dorm, and socializing with people... That was the best time of my life. I wouldn't trade that away, if I could help it.
No, it's to remove dollars every month from the pockets of people who THINK they see a lot of movies, but in reality don't. Just like Costco or any other membership-based wholesaler depend on people having the illusion of value in bulk when in reality a lot of people probably break even or come out worse, when waste is factored in.
Supreme Court backs employers over workers in first of two major labor cases
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Are you doubting that a Google spreadsheet disappeared from Google documents, and that support reps had a difficult time finding it?

That seems like a pretty weak criticism to make up. And the account your questioning has a history here, and is not promoting another product, so why would they make that up?
Strong found a dwelling for the weak, and preyed on them.
I think the CIA lost its way during the Bush II administration. (More precisely, I think they were led astray by the Bush administration and then used as a scapegoat.) But Snowden's leaks concerned NSA and related agencies work on signals intelligence. He wasn't fighting against torture, so please don't give him credit for it.
Star Trek communicators seem a lot more like walkie-talkies than phones.

edit: Note that only active duty Starfleet personnel seem to carry communicators. Civilians do not.
Ask HN: In 2018, can an individual produce a scalable app?
In the early days of the internet, a person would fire up a lamp server, and start up a site. You were in business.

That became difficult to do for a while, because your home server would not scale easily and you had to manage hardware.

Then there was a new paradigm. Ruby on Rails or one of the other frameworks (Django) let a single person knock out a site and push it to Heroku and you were in business.

There are some trends that make this more difficult:

1. Security is specialized

2. It costs a lot of money if it does scale

3. Consumers expect "sophisticated" experiences (example: snappy responsive sites, sized perfectly to my screen)

Some things make it easier:

1. Sites like AWS, Azure, Google, Digital Ocean let you run servers and an API

2. You can code a front end in a different language to make it snappy

However, we are moving towards a team. A single person doing all those things is getting harder.

Now I know a single person can produce a "toy" example, but are there modern stacks that let a single person produce an app that can scale indefinitely?
A better comparison is the Stockholm C – Uppsala C SJ-operated non-stop services, which like the Miami to Ft Lauredale services take exactly 30 minutes.

This is 63 km (39 mi) as the crow flies (66 km by track), so an average speed of 126 km/h (78 mph), substantially quicker than the Miami to Ft Lauredale service.
Scihub would strongly benefit from moving to ipfs, shocked that hasn't happened yet.
Yes, I have to agree about `instanceof` and friends being tricky. Often they seem to come up as a quick fix for some larger architectural problem, resulting in long-term debt.

The idea of inferring the set of possible implementations of a function from its signature is neat.
While our code is not, our vault formats are open. :)

Ben Woodruff
AgileBits
We do occasionally hear that. Did you try the more subtle color schemes, or just the default (which is the brightest)?
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I think what you say is true, but that you very much underestimate China's imperialist ambitions.
Treating Old School Right
Deep-state doesn't just mean conspiratorial "them/they". It means all of the bureaucratic individuals that haunt the halls of government between administrations and Congressional turnover.

I have never seen this interpretation expressed by anyone else, ever.
Blue Origin: Quiet Plans for Spaceships
"consensus among open source lawyers." One person claimed that, but provided no source - when answering a contrary opinion with a source.
>the hyper capitalist 'profit above all else' that America espouses

They learned it from the best. The Dutch East India Company, the British South Africa Company, and a couple of dozen others.

People in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses.
Banks Adopt Military-Style Tactics to Fight Cybercrime
Elon Musk should probably focus his immediate efforts on saving Tesla from bankruptcy.
If the local government is already highly corrupt this might not even ultimately be a bad thing for most Ethiopians.
That most of the time would be the IT guy who just finished a large burrito, max spicyness
Historian Walter McDougall has written about the duality of the American term "hustle", which means both "being a go-getter" and "scam". He's writing a whole three-volume history of America from this perspective that I keep wanting to find time to read: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/books/free-to-be-you-and-...

That's always had resonance for me, especially here in startup culture, where the line between the two is at best hazy, and is often willfully erased. Just today in Jean-Louis Gassée's article on Theranos, he quotes an old Silicon Valley joke about a pitch that shows both kinds of hustle: "It’ll work because it’d be cool if it did." https://mondaynote.com/theranos-could-have-been-stopped-9670...
The question then is why it takes so long to accelerate.
Since I rarely do window splits, I finally gave up on tabs and just stick with buffers. Tabs in vim aren't really tabs anyway. They are window layouts. If one tries to treat them like tabs, things can get confusing fast. Using Airline, you can show your buffers in a line at the top of the screen and treat them like tabs, which is nice. I map <leader>h and <leader>l to move between buffers.
Why I Went to DEF CON China
As long consumers keep paying more to be advertised to (buying) than they're willing to pay to not (donations, subscriptions, boycotting) it'll stay a lopsided game.

It seems to me like there's plenty of good people willing to fight the good fight, but their lifestyle comes first and ideals second.
>> This data provides a great opportunity, but it's just presented as a dumb contest.

Are you going to do-the-work to take that great opportunity?
From the article: In an ideal free market resting on private property, no individual can coerce any other, all coopera­tion is voluntary, all parties to such coopera­tion benefit or they need not participate. There are no values, no "social" responsibilities in any sense other than the shared values and responsibilities of individuals. Society is a collection of individuals and of the various groups they voluntarily form.

Someone should inform the members of "Affected by Addiction Support Group".
quis expergiscitur ipsos expergiscitodes?
How to Build Your First Robot
You'd do an oil change after 1000 miles?
>It's like (today or 18th century, does not matter) some African dude showing up in the middle of a busy European city center yelling "I discovered Europe!"

Imagine you self-fund your own voyage to Mars. You descend into a cave and find a city full of humanoid Martians. Do you think it would be inappropriate for you to exclaim, "I discovered Submartia!"?

Go medieval enough, and South Africa is about as remote as Mars.
I used to work support for GAE and recognize all of this. This is really impressive, congrats on the great work and huge bounty. Keep it up!
I love how the default way to get an actual human to respond to a real problem at google is now:

1. Be famous

2. Make a stink on social media

I feel like I'm back in high school.
For JQBX the styling is done differently between mobile and web. I stared off using scss for web (old habits die hard) and then had to use JS styling for react-native. Not the biggest deal though since the UI is where the two apps diverge the most. Very few things use the exact same UI patterns between web and native. But if I were to do it again (and had a design laid out in advance) I would probably opt for JS-styled components across both versions- though the "CSS" syntax is a little different so you would need some way to port that. I think it still makes a bit of sense to keep styling separate between web and mobile though since you're dealing w/ a different interface... but like everything it depends on what you're building.
Salaries went up a bit also tax was reduced - needless to say the price spikes aren't proportional but it's a start
Create React Native App (CRNA) with Expo. It doesn't get any better than this from a developer experience perspective.
So I said colonizing; were you just vehemently agreeing the whole time, and "settlement" to you means "mass migration?"
That's an impressive level of self-deception you've constructed for yourself there.
Damn, wish I saw that in the TOS, would have saved me a lot of trouble haha. But as indicated, the (MUCH needed) phone support came out in Jan 2018. I cancelled in November.
I live in Florida. Paying less than $200/mo. for insurance before the age of 25 is almost unheard of.
I got mine from my mom when she was in Abu Dhabi, she cannot believe her eyes when she sees him, she said even his mannerism is mostly the same as mine. The guy seemingly disturbed by my mom's observation and left the place.

I'm from Indonesia.