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I'm sad/angry/depressed as any Pebbler right now, so I won't repeat those comments. Instead, since this is HN after all, let me ask - what shall we do?

In a year or two, when my current Pebble Time fails, I'd love an equivalent smartwatch to be available. Since the market doesn't seem to want it, how can we make it happen anyway?

Features I'm looking for are, in order of priority:

- always-on screen, preferably color (like Pebble Time), but monochromatic will do
- open SDK for writing software for the watch
- battery life at least the one like Pebble's - 5-7 days
- *zero* dependency on cloud for it to work
- basic, standard suite of sensors onboard - compass/magnetometer/accelerometer, maybe a mike
- elegant form factor

Now I can go the DIY route (I have a friend with experience in making smartwatches from ground-up, though I'd look at some SOCs instead of going the uC + separate sensors route - to save on watch size). Many of us here could do it. But honestly, I have shit ton of other stuff to do, and I'd rather pay for such a watch and enjoy the ecosystem, just like I did with Pebbles. And if everyone goes the DIY route, and there won't be some standardization along the way, there will be no community. Any idea how to coordinate and make this happen? Maybe a community, open-hardware design + crowdfunding for production?
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I feel your sentiment minimizes how difficult it is to run a business.
Different optimizations. WaveNet (depending on hardware and configuration) takes hours to tens of hours per second of audio, but sounds really good. Polly can create audio faster than you can listen to it.
that's because we setted up the projects months ago.

if you can please contribute, just PR PR PR PR :)
If you live in a small subsistence community with a barter economy or primitive trade, then it's a great deal more obvious that destroying capital just makes everybody poorer.
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Shoot - I'd love an API you pass in txt in one language and get multiple languages back in txt and speech.
The dict shrinkage(25% less!) in memory is pretty sweet! I'm not sure how many of you abuse dicts to hold [just about] everything, but this is a big boost for those of us that do.
I had both of my original KS Pebbles brick with the same screen issue.

Needless to say, you had a lot more faith in the company than I did after that. I just considered my original KS pledge a bad investment and moved on without looking back.
I was wondering why it sometimes sounded like bad compression artifacts! Thanks.
Could we drop “Lifelike” from the title? It's marketing puffery (and untrue, it sounded very robotic to me to the point I was convinced I'd heard the wrong audio file). The actual story is that it's Amazon's text-to-speech-as-a-service offering, not that it's particularly innovative in terms of sounding good.
English speakers sound brain dead to be honest. This sounds no different from pre-NN attempts, only difference this time is it's behind an Amazon paywall.
Sheer speculation, but I wonder if that could be related to the "checkerboarding" artifacts you almost always see in AI-generated images?

Here's a good writeup: http://distill.pub/2016/deconv-checkerboard/
They didn't buy the company, they bought some of the assets. In an asset purchase you don't take on the liability of the company your purchasing the assets from. Pebble as a company will go into bankruptcy and cease to exist.
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I wrote https://github.com/awalGarg/cv-maker/ which generates the resume in markdown. From there, you can convert it with pandoc to basically whatever you want. It is not much polished yet, though.
That doesn't work for me, at all. I don't want "any space" to be a work area.

I have a "work area". And when I close the door, I've left the office. I'm not at work. I don't want my couch to be a work area, I don't want the bedroom to be a work area. I need to be able to leave work at the end of the day.
I live in two-bedroom apartment with my wife and two kids, and really miss having an office.

Don't get me wrong - my apartment is very nice and it's worth the compromise - but I'm posting this between CI runs, sitting on the floor of my bedroom. I'd love to have an office; I just don't have the space for it.
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These people must not have kids.
I always wonder why they don't program a second pass over the output with a model, say, trained on radio conversations. That second model just for audio 'quality'.
I'm not sure about Mandarin, but this is definitely true for Japanese. Near-human Japanese text-to-speech has been around a very long time.
Web link + open article in incognito.
The worst thing possible is mixed messaging, so what I should do is draw a clear line between Mobile Jazz "the services company" and Bugfender "the product". So each with their own marketing channels etc. However, to get traffic (potential customers) across I would think its a good idea to make some noise on the Mobile Jazz website (since it already is a strong brand) to get people across towards the Bugfender website to help build its own seperate brand. Also make sure that people can see that Bugfender is a product of Mobile Jazz (due to brand building), so I would make sure to include "Bugfender by Mobile Jazz" instead of just "Bugfender" in all my messaging. At least until it can stand on its own two feet.

My two cents. Hope it helps :)
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But it's the title of an article.
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I flagged this as spam since you can't read the pdf without a social login. If I instead go to url weall.com to see if I can find more information, the "Learn more" button simply takes you to an email signup.

To the submitter: create a webpage that has some substantial and concrete text for us to discuss. Your method of disseminating information looks like you're harvesting social/email accounts.
TL;DR Completely blocked by popups and disabled scrolling. Don't waste your time.
The male english sample sounds like dragon speech from 10+ years ago, and the female sounded more robotic than others I've heard...

I don't see (or hear?) the advance here...
The "babbling" samples here are really fun. Would make for a great "Sims" language.
Lombok already gives you some of this:

- Data objects https://projectlombok.org/features/Data.html
That generate toString, getters, setters etc as required

- Val for local variables https://projectlombok.org/features/val.html
I don't start a new project without it.

And if you really want stripe down java checkout http://jpad.io/ a little program I made to make running java scripts/snippets extremely easy.
When I was in that stage of life, half my room was my bedroom and the other half was an office. I was still single at the time and living with my parents. I ended up moving out when I bought my first house, but if that had not been a possibility I probably would have had to find a 2 bedroom apartment. Which would have presumably still been cheaper than renting an apartment and also an office - co-working spaces can be really expensive.
yes I feel that scala or clojure already offer all these advantages (depending on your preference of static vs dynamic typing) and have great java interop.
I still don't get the foray into delivery of physical low value products. The cost of delivery is a sufficient portion of the total value of the products so as to make it economically impractical for most cases.

And we have the example of Peapod and WebVan which didn't just foretell but proved unless it was for specialized markets, it's a proposal for hemorrhaging money. Even if you get automation and you perfect the travelling salesman's problem you're still mostly dealing with low value products. Now, if it was delivery of expensive (Rx) drugs, or maybe even heavy but valuable items like gold or jewelry, legal documents, etc. okay. people will pay for that and you can make a profit but toiletries and pantry goods?
So... scala with some boilerplate?
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Sorry you did not get your Time 2. I got my Pebble 2 and I really like it. I am sad the core I ordered will not ship as my pebble is not connected to my Windows Phone and GPS would be nice when I run.

The pebble 2 does compete with the fit-bit. This story reminds me of a time when I worked at a small semiconductor equipment manufacture. We were a scrappy team and build a great small footprint tool. We won an order from a larger customer. Everyone was celebrating until our competitor quickly bought us out for cheap and shut us down. A few engineer went over to the new company but not enough to keep the product going.
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It shouldn't have been so difficult when customers were lining up months in advance to buy your product :-/
It's interesting that all 5 girls are at the front of company picture (bottom of page) with a sea of guys blending into the background obfuscating how male dominant this Pebble is.

Serious question: Would more gender equality have improved this company's chances?
I agree, and it's such a shame to see this company/product's demise due to overreach.

Per their site, Pebble's current product line has three different case designs, each available in at least three different finishes, and one with an additional heart rate monitor. That seems like an awful lot of SKUs for a small hardware startup to develop, manufacture, stock, fulfill and support. Their latest kickstarter added even more models.

From my armchair, it looks like they tried to expand and segment their market too quickly, for the sake of both growth and the optics of their product line in comparison to Apple.

I'm in the early stages of creating the world's tiniest "hardware startup" (the product consists of a single piece of metal), and it's a constant discipline to not get caught up in offering variations on the base design. Every product design choice ripples through the supply chain, increasing complexity and overhead at your peril.

Good luck to all the folks at Pebble in their new endeavors.
Wow, that was actually impressive. A few of those were hard to distiguish from human speakers. I love how they included breathing and mouth-sounds as well, really brings it to life.
Damn no love for arch in the comments!!!!!
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I would really love to know why the employee is paid in BTC. Are they out of the country, a felon, or something else entirely?
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Yes, the whole js app is a dist/ folder and weight does not exceed 1mb i guess, the outer weight is the price to pay
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Then what is? Seems to me to be very similar to the glory days of PARC and such where they seemed to have the funds to research just about anything. Lets not forget that Xerox brought the world the GUI, laser printer and Ethernet by funding PARC, even if they in the end was not who ended up monetizing the tech (laser printer excluded).
To make money providing services, you do what the customer asks. To make money providing products, you build what the customer needs.

I realize how tempting it is to lump it all under 'writing software' and calling it a day, but the culture at a services company is very different from a product company, in my experience. Plus it's really hard to give your customers a USP when you're essentially saying 'we do everything!' which you don't, unless you're 5k people big.

"From a company and team perspective I see no problem in doing both: services and products."

Yeah I'm going to have to disagree on this one. Sure it's fine in the beginning, but it's just a major pain once you start having regular release cycles and project deadlines that don't match, conflicts when some employees are more 'service providers' and others more 'product builders' (the two require different personalities, imo), cash flow and compensation differences and many more.

There are many companies who were in this position once, and all that I know made a choice of one or the other (usually product, that's where the money is if the product is good; services is a cost plus business). There were a few talks on this topic on the BoS conference in Dublin earlier this year, it's probably a recurring theme - I'm sure there have been more talks on it over the years.
How is that a word? Are we pre-schoolers now? Good lord.
Interesting to hear Danish and Icelandic. Does the language affect how difficult it is to get realistic sounds?
Thought about switching to a Brother laser, possibly wireless, with automated recto-verso scanner too.
> Does anyone have any suggestions or advice?

Odds are highly likely you'll connect with your next opportunity through your network. Use this time to ping guys you haven't talked to in years. Linkedin/Facebook of course are good tools for finding these folks. But you must have an Old School live conversation with them, preferably in person if you can.

Ask them for ideas and advice. In turn, be sure to ask how you might be helpful to them. I've found that old colleagues often progress and mature, in the same way you've grown. Their perspective and insights can prove truly invaluable.
Well call me old fashioned then :) I recently built a new home and I specifically wanted a dedicated & separated office and also ran Ethernet to all the rooms.

I will admit, when we were shopping it did seem hard to find homes listing a home office as feature even though several had them. I did also note that a popular thing now with new homes in AZ is a "mini" office that can barely fit a single PC and chair.
Agreed, I've got an "open concept" apartment, where I have a separate bedroom and a joint room with a kitchen living room and "home office". I've been working at home for the last 3 months and it's gotten significantly more difficult to concentrate with the couch so close to my desk, even with books and computers spread out all over the apartment. Home life and work have not been going as well as when I had a real office.
Anyone else feel like this really doesn't apply to them?

I have a dedicated office room, not split with another room.

Though I have a small apartment without a couch or living room, I still do 90%+ of my work done at home from the office desk.
If you can convince my wife to bring less garbage you should win a nobel prize. I agree with you logically, that is what should happen, but in real life and especially with families it doesn't happen. And when you sell to one person in a family you get 2, 3, 4, 5 more tickets that come along. So that's a big loss if you can't sell to families.

Also think about other groups that need to bring garbage. Musicians, sports teams, high school trips, etc. They are giving away group business to other airlines.

By definition when we travel, we usually want to bring something with us. Very few people fit the use case of being able to exist from just one small bag on a trip.
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Your options are to italicize, to introduce with a leading >, or to abuse monospace formatting in a way that breaks the user experience. Either of the former two is better than the latter, and my experience of several years on HN is that leading > is by far most common for quoting, but if abusing monospace formatting is the way you want to do it, then by all means abuse monospace formatting to your heart's content.
Yes, we have a pool of Elixir + Phoenix servers behind a classic Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (set to TCP/SSL mode, not HTTP/HTTPS, or else WebSockets don't work).
To say nothing of the fact that a programmer can't use the CLI? What programmer is that?

I mean, I'm all in favor of tools that integrate into the IDE, that reduce the overhead of running commands, but not being able to use the CLI would be a huge red flag.

In fact, you now have me considering writing a new interview test to make sure people are literate with the CLI.
Or at least treat any kind of cloud integration as a big negative. Without cloud dependence, the devices can always be hacked and made to work again until hardware dies.
The fact that it's tax-deductible (in the US) helps offset the cost.
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I think the former
Additionally when we speak we don't just 'replay' words; we add emotions and so on. Reminds me of this video [1] analysing how the actor Anthony Hopkins converts his lines to speech for his scenes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kSGkGKwp9U
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The thing these voices always miss is context. We need about 700 variations of every textual sentence that all depend on the mood or goal of the conversation and modulate pitch, volume, speed, word choice, etc. appropriately.

This experiment does cover the "generic computer voice" role quite well, but customers don't want that on e.g. their website. I would want a "I'm a professional designer" voice. So there will always be markets for more appropriate voices [*]. But this one does sound very nice at what it does.

The same will happen with robots, btw. Once we get a generic humanoid robot that can do everything, we will still seek aesthetic variations and employ remote body actors.
There is a similiar post(and several discussions) on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5gutxy/d_t...
“Most people I know end up sitting on the sofa, and half the time the TV is on when they’re working.”
I know I get easily distracted, but I can't imagine you're being very productive or focused in such an environment.
I've never tried it myself as an api but a quick poke around the googles throws this out https://cloud.google.com/speech/
Weird, the web link didn't work for me but searching directly for the article name in Google did.
My laptop is my work area. When its open and doing work tasks, im at work. When its closed, im at home. Both of those times can be in the same physical location.
Does anyone know why there is a 1000-character limit?
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To admit this, especially within the confines of the technology industry, is to show weakness.

Really? It seems like every conference I go to the hottest off-subject topics of chit-chat are griping about conferences, work travel, and stress of above. Followed closely by other crowd favorites "things used to be better" and "I haven't walked more than a mile a day in months, my feet suddenly hurt!"
Built-in keyboard - this depends how often or how important for a person text entry is. Certainly for older users that type often or value it more physical keyboard would have very high practical importance [1]. For younger users that write a lot it would also be important.

Desktop browser compatibility have high practical importance. There are many sites that are important (i.e. government sites), but either are hard to navigate or can't be displayed properly. Users may use 20% of sites 80% of time. It does not matter then when they stumble upon a site that is important, but does not work. This sounds like a classic argument of FOSS proponents - everything works except: this game or that printer. In many cases it will be unacceptable.

Additional safety browser extensions and Chrome Remote Desktop are indeed for technical users. However it is meant to cut needed service time - that is of value to the normal users.

Seamless updates are important in a sense that the device is not bugging them and device is always ready to use. That also ensures that device is safe to use. It may be not of high importance to users, but it certainly is of practical importance.

I did not include price previously, but it was mentioned here above. The price is not practical importance per se, but it often overrides everything.

[1] http://web.ist.utl.pt/hugo.nicolau/publications/2012/assets1... - it's a small study, but nice place to start
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Just as an example, in Q2 of this year, Alphabet had a 21% YoY increase in revenue, and a 43% YoY increase in profit. Gigantic failure indeed.

Besides, they're public companies. Investors might not know exactly which moonshot projects they're investing in, but the overall numbers are published four times a year. There's no major surprises.
And Kotlin as well, with java interop considered a top priority.
I suppose that they believed then that they could succeed. Selling out almost always mean destroying the product and fucking the userbase over. Maybe they didn't want to do it until they had no other choice?

At least that's what I want to believe about them; Pebble always seemed like an unique company in this market, trying to make a useful device instead of making money off selling trinkets.
any idea how long before Fitbit can be expected to come out with a product that integrates some of Pebble's goodies? I have been waiting on a Time Steel 2 since June, but I don't want to wait another 12 months for the teams to integrate and a product to be released (and hope the first effort won't be a frankenwatch).

I guess I'll have to look into the Apple Watch again—I didn't love it when I first tried it, but that was with the old OS and slow processor. Hope Fitbit can get something out the door before my Time Steel kicks the bucket!
I'm a huge proponent of having separate physical spaces to relax and do work in, a big part of this for me is adding more space or effort between myself and possible distractions.
Thanks, I rely too heavily on spellcheck.
I'm sorry, but lifelike? Not yet. More like better robot.
The female Spanish speaker has a strong Scandinavian accent.
> I will admit, when we were shopping it did seem hard to find homes listing a home office as feature even though several had them.

Forgive my ignorance (I'm not a homeowner and am just starting to think about it), but wouldn't a home office just be a bedroom that you use as an office?
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How is directly linking a .mp3 the best way to preview their technology? You'd think there would be a much more elegant solution to showcase Polly on their site.
You gotta love clickbait, where "the home office is growing and spreading out to the entire home" becomes "the home office is DYING (1)"

(1) DYING, people, death! feel your amygdala respond! fight, flight or freeze! remain suggestible!
Let's flip this around, what are the benefits of writing a native app when there is Electron? It's democratizing cross-platform Dev tools in one of the most standard rich environments, the browser.

IMO, the question should always be, why native?
Yeah, I don't really get it. Then again, most distributions are pretty redundant at this point. I mean, how hard is it really to install Debian and type 'sudo apt-get install whatever'? Fancy distros, for the most part, are just repackaged Debian/Ubuntu/Arch, and should be desktop environment "flavors" that you install separately. There are some exceptions, but I find that the most derivitive distros purposely remove crap from even the most barebones Debian or they are very single-purpose. If I need a workstation OS, I am going to tailor it to my exact needs. Makes no sense to me to use a lesser-supported distro if I am just going to rip it apart anyway. I feel like more programmers than not will end up doing that. Am I wrong there?
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Does that bad Photoshopped cover photo mean to have a double meaning such as euphemism for working at home sucks?
The speech that's generated still sounds relatively artificial.

This is in comparison with Adobe's tech where it samples a real human voice and allows speech to be inserted (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe-...).