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> Banktivity (currently using)

> - Self-hosted: Although, I used online apps in the past, this is now an _absolute_ requirement.

Based on the rest of your post, your feature requirement list matching my own, as well as the privacy aspect, how do you reconcile the forced cloud-sync aspect of Banktivity? There doesn't appear to be an option to use anything except that which results in them getting an (encrypted) copy of your accounts.

Or am I failing to see that they actually support (at the very least) iCloud or custom storage providers (e.g. self-hosted NextCloud)?
I was reading through the docs and this FAQ is worth checking out: https://github.com/canonical/dqlite/blob/master/doc/faq.md

In includes an answer about the difference with rqlite.

To me reading the docs it seems like dqlite has been developed by the team who develops LXD at Canonical as LXD is listed as the biggest user of the project and it says on the authors github that he works at Canonical at/with LXD/LXC.

Interesting project, good luck to the author/authors if you read this!
> Killing decent products is the Google way.

If you were around since the 1990s, you'd notice that Google learned this from Microsoft.
Have you actually dealt with people on drugs? Do you know how it effects their families?
If you're bad enough to kill a person with the desired eyeball, you might as well unlock the door with them before you kill, with a few threats and promises. (pretty ugly thought)
One possibility is that the timing is usefully different with Electron - the products were out and getting traction (and presumably in Slack's case revenue) long before the performance hacks were conjured.

I don't know if the total amount of work over time sums to approach that of a portfolio of native apps, but even if that's the case, there's a world of difference between spending extra time improving a product that's already out in the world and developing the first cut.
Fiber has a latency advantage in real world usage. In the common scenario of multiple computers and users sharing a single connection, if one of them does something latency sensitive (gaming or video chat), he will be bothered a lot less by others heavy bandwidth use on fiber than on ADSL, or in a lesser measure cable.

That's because heavy bandwidth use (downloads, video streaming) will saturate a low bandwidth link and packets will drop. Or bufferbloat will increase latency without dropping, which is the same for latency sensitive usage.

With multiple video streams going on in the average household being a common case nowadays, it's nice to have enough bandwidth.
Seems like you are still addicted to heroin and just trying to rationalise things. Lets play devils advocate, lets say the problem really was cost and difficulty of procurement. Then rich people should have no issue with it, no? They have enough money and they usually have a trustworthy dealer around. In fact one can practically say that rich people live in world very similar to a world where drugs are legal, because (a) they can afford them and (b) the police do not bother rich people with drug searches nowadays. Should be great.

Of course what really happens is that a rich person takes more and more, gets more and more addicted and thus must take more for the same effect, until they take enough heroin to literally turn off their heart and they die, usually in their bathtub. How many people die from a tylenol overdose.

If you make heroin legal you just ensure the same fate reaches many more people. Perhaps we can make heroin legal for people already addicted but lets not kid ourselves that is just kind of a prolonged assisted suicide.

I have no doubt that you feel miserable and you felt much better on heroin, but that is a product of your addiction rather than anything else. Healthy people can feel mental and physical clarity without drugs.
Google knew they were friends. Common contacts, location histories, easy.
Yeh I (as a dyslexic) got the same at school having my handwriting mocked by the teacher.

It took me much longer to pass my English language O level (exam taken at 16).
Nearly everybody around me did it, so I guess I was on bandwagon until it became unbearable.
What can this be used for (example use cases)? Is there 24/7 support available? How long has it been around and is there a commitment to long term releases?
Parliament is dismissed regularly. The current dismissal is 4 days longer than normal (https://order-order.com/2019/08/28/boriss-prorogation-will-s...). The current length of sitting is the longest in a very long time (it's currently two years, it's normally one).

It's not clear what people who want to overturn the referendum would do in those four days that they couldn't do in the previous three years.

I supported Remain (here's me on HN trying to get support for Stronger In back in 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952724), but something like a million more people voted leave.

Comparing attempts to implement the referendum outcome to Hitler or Erdogan is bizarre and clickbaity. Flagged.
Why won't they just open source the reader instead of abandoning it? I would love to have at least one 100% working epub reader on Windows...
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Well written, and insightful.

164 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004216 from 2017.

> unlike Python, Swift, or Elixir, Perl 6 can can access arbitrary graphemes by position in constant time

So can Python, I thought.

> As a long-time Ragel addict, I really wanted to like Perl 6’s grammar engine, but the lack of decent failure handling means I can’t endorse it except as a refactorable regex machine.

I also like Ragel, and one of the idle thoughts, were I to try Perl 6, was for a parsing project that would exercise the grammar engine.
I used Dqlite for a side project[1], which replicates some of the features of LXD. Was relatively easy to use, but Dqlite moves at some pace and trying to keep up is quite "interesting". Anyway once I do end up getting time, I'm sure it'll be advantageous to what I'm doing.

1. https://github.com/spoke-d/thermionic
talk about moderate, calm-headed journalism
From the FAQ[1]

The main differences from rqlite are:

- Embeddable in any language that can interoperate with C

- Full support for transactions

- No need for statements to be deterministic (e.g. you can use time())

- Frame-based replication instead of statement-based replication

[1] https://github.com/canonical/dqlite/blob/master/doc/faq.md
Thanks to all for the feedback and comments!

@rcarmo Yes, bumps are enhanced, to make the surface more dramatic. This scale is a parameter in the notebook, it can be set to the realistic 1.15% of the mean radius.

On another forum, someone pointed out that the Lambertian shading makes the Moon surface too smooth. So the diffuse material roughness will come in the next PlotOptiX release, in a few days. :)
In the subcontinent most clinics are commission salesmen for pharmaceutical companies. They have a deal with them that every prescription should include the company's products (painkillers, antibiotics), and they get a commission. Sales reps call on the clinics constantly to push the products. It is horrible.
> overseas beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.

Is it a real thing?
The telcos are working on solving the problem. The FCC recently changed a rule[1] that was, in part, preventing them from acting. The telcos are also working out the technology that will allow them to block them at the source, and all the major ones are planning to roll it out soon. It's not as if they've been intentionally negligent here.

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2019/05/15/blocking-and...
My Linux installation on my workstation is on a separate SSD with it's own bootloader. I can also start Windows from GRUB and it's configured to remember the last selection to prevent booting into the wrong OS after a security update.

I use Windows mostly for games only.
Samsung sells a lot of phones but far from the majority of them, they have around 25% of the android market, which means 75% has Chrome installed by default.
Well, if it's Chrome and is untrackable, then it's Brave, easy.
I don't really understand what point you're making here. These legislative bodies still are not even as remotely bad as the CCP at respecting human rights.

You don't need to have a perfect government to be better than the CCP, you just need to have check and balances not to commit the atrocities the CCP is committing.

And by the way, we Swedes are still waiting for Gui Minhai to either be released or get a real trial, and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs would love to meet with him before such a trial in that case (I mean, this is a hit-and-run charge, not terrorism). To the UK and the US, this request would not be out of the ordinary and would've been handled years ago.
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It's surprising that their constitution allows all of this.

Oh wait, they don't have one!
It's interesting that the tool (and system) is designed to aid people trying for the opposite result, i.e. for publicists and other authors striving to word their message to be as widely understood as possible.
Three main misinterpretations:

1) Getting bigger over time.

2) Safe outside the cone.

3) Further from centre implies less preparation required.

1) Is maybe true anyway? I have no idea. Is it an important error?

2) Is more of a problem with the chart than the people. There's a hard border. It implies 95/99.7% confidence instead of 68%. Were the graph more intuitively designed, the interpretation would not be wrong, really, insofar as one maps probability to a binary choice.

3) Seems completely logical - the expected threat is lower further from the centre. People are still underestimating the risk, but for the same reason as 2).
For anyone who read this comment and was wondering what "qualia" actually is, I found an old episode of VSause about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08 .
My German VoIP account allows me to specify any caller ID that I like. That includes numbers that I don't own.
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Yes, we do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
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It is worth noting that there are multiple legal attempts in the courts (particularly one in the Scottish Court of Session) :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-495...
Scaleway (where the author of this post works, as I do) is a cloud service provider with a pretty interesting GPU instance: Nvidia P100 16-GB NVIDIA Tesla P100 at 1€ per hour
Wow, nice. 15 years after giving up on learning TeX, I just wrote my first successful (La)TeX formula, in only 2 minutes and 47 seconds! Sweet!
If you spend more than a few minutes a day struggling with Jira, you should bitch to whoever is in charge of Jira. But if you really believe that 15 minutes a week of your time

This doesn't reflect my experience at all as a developer in small teams.

I spend quite a lot of time in the issue tracker - it is one of the main ways (along with email and conversations) that I interact with other team members and track work in the team. I can't imagine any situation where developers would spend just 15 minutes a week in an issue tracker and be able to do their job effectively, even junior devs should be spending more time than that responding to feedback and explaining what they have done, scope changes, what to test etc etc.

Creating software is not all writing code - much of it is thinking and interacting with other people, before you even start writing code, and then iterating fast on what you have written, gathering feedback along the way. An issue tracker is one of the tools used to do that.

So the tools are important, and Jira gets almost everything wrong in my view.
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I think most people think of a constitution as a single document - so in that sense we don't have one.
Of course a dismissal of parliament is nothing out of the ordinary, but you are ignoring the context.

The government is dismissing the parliament not because they want to solicit the voters' input in the form of new elections, but rather because they want to shut down the voters' objections against the no-deal Brexit (which arguably wasn't even on the ballot in the first place!) and paralyze the parliament until they can't prevent it anymore.

And expecting journalists or historians not to draw comparisons across successful or attempted end runs around a relatively democratic system is a little strange.
Off-topic: I highly suggest you to change font (at least, body font) on your website. It is very difficult to read.
It's not that difficult of an intellectual exercise to find parallels between one time and place and Weimar Germany.

Honestly this article is a bit intellectually dishonest by saying things like "It seemed as though nothing could go wrong" in Weimar Germany in 1920. There were outright revolutions going on at that time. Like large groups of revolutionaries and freikorps machine gunning each other in the streets of Berlin within 12 months of that election. Did people back then really feel like "nothing could go wrong?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssYACBz8gzs&t=17s
Being awful is Skype's killer feature. You can't carpet-bomb with pings, you can't comfortably copy and paste code or logs into it, half of devs who use linux don't bother running it on a VM and instead use flaky third-party clients, it eats messages randomly, so long story short - people generally avoid it except for trivial shit. And on the odd day when they don't, I get a copy on Outlook anyway.

I've read some horror stories about Slack, and I shudder to think what would happen if my company moved to it.
Hello There, this is not about a QR code scanner being into the phone, but the tool that is used to generate those QR. IOS has a native QR reader. Maybe Google and Apple could include a QR generator and improve the reader in a way that makes it easy to verify and read what is scanned
Do people in other countries care about the percentage domestic content in this way?
Yes we do. It's uncodified (meaning not all in one document) and in very small part unwritten but we still have one.

This is politically controversial but not in the grand scheme of things a big deal in my view. The anti Brexit groups have been playing hardball with legal and constitutional 'innovations' for some time and now the pro Brexit camp are responding in kind.

It's also worth noting that John Major used this very device in 1997 to avoid scrutiny over the Cash for Questions affair and it's also been used for political purposes recently in Canada.

The rhetoric of the anti Brexit side in the media over this is doing Johnson's work for him - he wants a 'people vs the establishment' election (and he'd likely do very well with that) and people who lost the referendum screaming 'coup' plays right into that narrative.
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Doesn't really affect my rich friends much. They call it their youthful phase before they go onto better things in life.
A step in the right direction: Apple recently announced that next year security researchers will have access to special iPhones: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20756629/apple-iphone-secu...
By definition however, we do. From Google: "a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed."
Yes, in Denmark you buy a car and pay the same amount in taxes, and then you pay half of that in taxes on top ;)

There is an exception for cars under 10.000, I think there the taxes are around 95%.

For that reason, Denmark is full of super small cars and well serviced bigger and older cars.

Yet, I guess the author now moved to Switzerland, at least the number plate does not look danish at all.
The leave-campaign wasn't noted for moderate calm-headed journalism, nor were the boulevard magazines which created the sentiment against immigrants and the EU in the first place ever calm-headed and moderate.
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I've noticed that their web client is getting worse and worse, sometimes it loads messages just to reload (with a force_cold_boot param or something like that) them again, other times it shows the "new messages" bar even though I've already read them or doesn't scroll to the last message, not to mention that it usually takes several seconds to load a channel on a new computer... It's just not pleasent to use, I can't believe that 20+ years ago we had IRC clients that worked so much faster that this "modern" chat.. Sure there are many features on the Slack that IRC is missing but still the major one is simply messaging
Paramilitaries and UK armed forces were fighting in parts of the UK relatively recently and that peace is under threat by a no-deal Brexit so I'm not sure that is the best analogy.
Haven't read the article, but my initial reaction to the tile was: "and if you are that's fine".

To elaborate a bit more not just for anyone reading it, but also for me:

You don't HAVE to be not lazy, not bored or motivated. No one is all of these all the time and setting the expectation to be is both unrealistic and not helpful.

It's fine to be lazy (many tools came from people automating their work because they were lazy)

It's fine to be bored (I don't know about you, but for me when I had the luxury to be bored back in school or univeristy, my imagination was running wild and I was in my most creative mode)

It's fine to be unmotivated (Not everything needs motivation to happen. I never have motivation to do laundry or to go shopping. For things that do need motivation to happen like going every day to work, you can just wait. Either you'll get motivation or you won't, in which case you look for something else)
For 'the voters' I think you mean MPs. The voters haven't had a vote either way on this point and opinion polling has not exactly been either consistent or reliable on it. The MPs who are upset at this seem not to want an election for some reason.

Also, they're not dismissing parliament, but suspending it.
A supermarket is not a public space. All I am saying is that all information gathered in the public space should be shared publicly. The idea being: anyone could have been there and recorded that information (since it is public). This will prevent those with deep pockets to create a panopticon of our public environment.
Oh I had no idea somebody was using it in the wild! It has been unstable until now, we just released v1.0.0 yesterday. So no more public API breakage from now on.
I'm not brimming with ideas of where this would be a good fit tbh. Is anyone using it or considering it for anything?
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Jews destroying the lives of people just to extract money off of them? Can't be.
the engineering part.
This prorogation is significantly longer than usual (see: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-parliament...). It is usually for less than a week and this is for up to 34 days. The Government has failed to give a reasonable justification for the extra duration. Every complaint about "blocking" remainer MPs makes clear the real reason. Trying to block a no-deal Brexit of course does not entail overturning the referendum result as no-one was proposing no-deal during the referendum.

That said, I agree with you that Parliament doesn't seem capable of much. Personally I think too many MPs are caught up in their own importance and should have recognised the need for something like citizens' assemblies long ago. If Macron can organise them after some protests why are we still stuck where we were three years ago?
>Turns out the instructions said the essay would be scored on verbal efficiency; getting the point across clearly with the fewest words. I started playing around and realized that the more words I added, the higher the score

Apart from the fact that your story is straight up frightening, isn't this part completely backwards, too? I mean, clearly using more words to convey the same message is /less/ efficient, not more so?
> against the no-deal Brexit (which arguably wasn't even on the ballot in the first place!)

The ballot: "Leave" or "remain". "The government will implement what you decide"

The government must be able to keep all options on the table, including no-deal, to get a good deal.

If you have to take a job, and don't have the option of walking away, your employer will give you the worst deal possible.
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lmao

The issue is that the callers speak English, not German. If you go to Nordic countries where everyone speaks English you get similar calls as in the US.

You can spoof numbers anywhere.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've been under the impression that kernel contributors are not vetted? Only patches are vetted.
The fact missing out here which no one noticed is the prices.

The prices of food items on Zomato are always higher than that served at the restaurant.

The restaurant owners are always changing the prices and still complain that Zomato is cheating them by offering discounts.

Also they forgot the fact that without zomato it would have so difficult for them to discover and serve.
Basically they want the entire business of zomato without any cost.
"your apps hide icon after installation"

Why?
Thanks for the reply. I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick and had almost the exact experience you describe with world building. I'll definitely give Neuromancer a read when I finish the three or so books I've started but not finished (it's not an issue of boredom - I'm just very busy at the moment).
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Boris Johnson is the embodiment of establishment and elite himself.

Voters did not have a chance to vote on what he is doing. It's virtually certain that a majority of voters didn't want this at the time of the referendum, nor do they want it right now.

Beginning with the multiple lies from Johnson and his ilk, and not ending with giving false hope on an extremely beneficial and one-sided deal with the EU.

The question of the referendum was ill posed and completely botched, even without mentioning that Russia also "lend" a hand to the Leave campaign.
You might mean "gamification" rather than "game theory" - one is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts, the other is the study of mathematical models of strategic interaction in between rational decision-makers.
I like the mental model of "innovation points". You have a certain budget of innovation points that you can spend while building your project. If you spend too much (i.e. use new shiny things throughout the stack), you're going to be chasing after bugs everywhere and won't get very far. If you spend too little (i.e. use only old stuff), you'll have a hard time implementing real innovations. The idea is to spend innovation points strategically, i.e. use new shiny components (like a new programming language or a new DB) only where it actually brings you a tangible benefit, while using tried and trusted components for everything else.

(The concrete budget of innovation points varies per project. A government project will have way fewer innovation points than a weekend side-project.)