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I've used Yeoman in a few projects, but realistically I've only seen it used to bootstrap a project, and I happen to do longer running projects so there's not much bootstrapping. A second use case of Yeoman is generating components, and we do have a set of templates to do that in our project, but honestly I'm old-fashioned and inefficient and just copy / paste an existing component instead of try and figure out how Yeoman works again and iterating on the templates. Might be different if we added new components more often.
Has anyone seen this yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcqBElF0ZI

So many innovations happening with voice related technology..
Released my first npm module. Handle JS child processes with ease
now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcqBElF0ZI
You're portraying it like somebody directly calls or implies another one shill, but that is almost always not what happens in HN comments. The comments I generally see in HN complaining about shilling are about either products or companies and most of the time they are top post (ie. not an answer to another comment, and even when they are not top posts they are not addressed to the comments or commenters they are replying to. I've yet to see a commenter explicitly or implicitly blaming another commenter a shill. (and it wouldn't be logical anyway, calling attention to shilling about a topic is more effective than arguing with individual commenters which may or may not be shills).
2) Is literally dumping, which is anti-competitive and either illegal in many jurisdictions or at least immoral everywhere else.
"I go first" - heard it on a Tim Ferriss podcast.

Be the first to volunteer, to put your hand up with a question, to introduce yourself to others, to open the conversation.

It avoids those awkward moments when a group of people look at their shoes wondering who is going to respond. It also helped me address my general reluctance to be the first responder.
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Google launches a manned Mars mission.

(1.5 years later)

Google discontinues Mars Project; half a dozen users don't justify the costs of keeping the infrastructure up.
VOIP calls are very sensitive to intermittent connectivity.

Sometimes wifi will work in batches. No packets will get through for a few hundreds of milliseconds (or seconds), then they will get sent all at once.

Sometimes UDP traffic is blocked completely and the call has to get relayed over TCP. Now no packets can get dropped and you get delays due to retransmits.

Sometimes 3g/4g connection disappears because someone entered a building an overpass or passed a corner in a city.

Sometimes the sides of the conversation are far and the audio delay is high.

If any side of the conversation encounters a problem described above both will get a bad quality.
I don't believe what you ask for can ever exist. "Clear, Distortion Free, Low-Latency. Pick any two" comes to mind.

When you're doing voip you're doing so over UDP because TCP has far too much latency to be agreeable, but this means a lost packet will be a digital distortion. The nature of the internet is that packets get lost or arrive out of sequence- that's why TCP exists in the first place.
Could anyone clarify why PostgreSQL is challenged? Challenged by who?

No sarcasm intended, I am a bit confused by this.
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A capital B indicates "byte", and a lower-case b indicates "bit". 240 MBps is eight times faster than 240 Mbps.

When it comes to speeds in bits per second, M almost always means 1000000, and not 1048576.
I consider that an advantage, simple things have their appeal. Unity without any 3rd party plugins is very basic, and a lot of these community engines are at the same level.
It's still better than the old situation where you'd land on a page that was stacked full of heaps of ads. At least now if you're on mobile data, you see a page with a tiny bit of text and then 'next' and it warns you that the next page is going to be godawful and use half your month's quota.
Could it be the upload speeds or QoS settings?
I don't use voip, my wife skypes long distance and it seems pretty good for both video and audio and our internet is only 2ish Mb down and 1ish Mb up!
Jitter is one of the words you're looking for. 20 milliseconds does not sound like much, but when it's a delay in some (but not all) packets in a call getting to you, you can sure hear it!

Jitter is why you could have a 1 GB/s connection at home, and still have the same occurrence of poor call quality.

QoS (Quality of Service) can help, but only if it is applied at every router the traffic for a call goes through. QoS-assured bandwidth is more expensive, and cost-conscious VoIP providers don't seem to be willing to pay for it.

(edited to add) I'm a Skype for Business admin.
Ah yes. Shifters.

Have you ever driven a three on the tree? Or where is reverse on my Renault Grand Scenic, with a 6sp manual and no markings on the shifter?
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Because nothing says enterprise like a 2.6 MB photo of a lake.
Google launches Meet, a video conferencing app for businesses
I'm always curious about the math behind the cost savings in these types of off-shoring arrangements. I'm sure I'm missing something here, but if the HCL contract is for $50M, and they're claiming savings of $30M, that means that the expenditures for the original 97 employees+contractors would have worked out to approximately $825,000 per head, on average. ($80M / (49 + 48))

Now I know wages in the Bay Area are skewed, but even all in with benefits I'm sure that's much higher than the salaries of the replaced individuals.

Best to those being replaced, I'm sure they'll be picked up by smarter employers.

EDIT: Thanks to @jt2190 and @ar-jan for pointing out that I forgot to divide by 5, which gives a much more reasonable answer. It's a little too early here... ;)
All University IT departments I have interacted with were terrible too. Universities simply cannot pay market-level salaries for IT staff because it would turn the whole pay-pyramid upside-down. The ones who stay, spend most of their time making sure their work is neither cheap nor good: You cannot use the cloud! but you can have this VMWare virtual from 2009. You need to store 500TB? we don't have it but don't you dare to use S3. To get stuff done you have to essentially run a shadow IT group. Let's see how the UCSF experiment turns out.
The CHIP had ridiculous postage fees, CHIP + the keyboard/display thingy would've been close to 100€ to get here.

Not worth it.
How is a 2 Gb/s home connection presented? 10GbE?
So what you're saying is: VOIP will never match PSTN? Because that's the mood music I get from the sysadmins at work too.
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Google use Hangouts for all their video conferencing, both purely internal AFAICT and with externals. I expect that's a large part of why they're continuing to support Hangouts for enterprise: they're heavily bought into it themselves.
Longer term, outsourced IT costs for larger projects are not lower than having staff. The cost savings could be in outsourcing infrastructure too, although the way medical systems are required to be maintained in US it's hard to imagine they'd move their stuff to AWS, or if they did whether it would be much cheaper.

Curious to know of real reasons - maybe some internal politics? Or maybe they had issues with staff skills/retraining?
Among other things, I'm a Skype for Business admin. We've found that having our users use Ethernet when working from home instead of WiFi eliminated a lot of audio quality complaints.
Whoever thinks that all these random 3D engines are worth anything to anyone but hobbyist programmers is delusional to say the least. "gui tooling" (or as I like to call it: "the engine") represents maybe 80 to 90% of value of an engine like Unity or Unreal. I'm sure that anyone who's actually done some project in one of these can confirm what I'm saying. The amount of money and time spent on the tools of UE is simply insane.
I was arguing from the point of view of those that think "engine == code" and disregard these engines without everything else that surrounds the eco-system or understanding of how many studios work, which is quite common in the HN Web & FOSS culture.

Good luck with your project.
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It does seem bizarre.

My wife had an acute, severe medical issue that resulted in a hospital admission.

I don't know if cannabis would have been appropriate, but the heavy opiod doses given to her weren't exactly amazing at managing her pain, but their side effects were almost worse than the pain and likely extended her stay.
The use case is time-delayed Tor actions. A delay would prevent correlating Tor access with the associated server. However, many users of this service would be requesting tasks that could wind up causing the turk to get arrested!
You say "deserve" as if there is some God or universal parent dictating people's fortune like they are handing out cookies for being a good boy. You might say someone you really like deserves much better fortune then they have realized, but that's something that's completely subjective to you - it's because you yourself like them. You might say that someone who is very fortunate deserves less because you don't like them, that is also very subjective. Since wealth makes you intrinsically less likable, it's pretty natural people would think that the wealthy deserve less. But does that have any objective significance? No.
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The scroll jacking is really atrocious on my phone. It forces me to go incredibly slowly. Scroll jacking of any kind shouldn't be a thing, but this is worst than most other instances of it.
I keep a Windows 98 VM around for the occasional nostalgia trip into the bits of my gaming back collection that haven't found their way onto Steam or GOG yet.

I'm still waiting on Sierra's Civil War General[1] to get a rerelease...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzG6hwb5l64
He wouldn't, he was careful to avoid that since 1940-es:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/325051-well-mr-frankel-who-s...

I guess you haven't read the book, take a look.
It's actually great sense of humor, but too cynical and dismissal of other people effort. There's nothing wrong with pointing out occasional HN hive-mind tendencies, but his summaries of FOSDEM talks paint a different picture. He seems to get real kicks of belittling people's years of work.
Some bugs are being found that affect single-vCPU emulation. There's still a possibility that it will be reverted before the release.
UK’s long-delayed digital strategy looks to AI but is locked to Brexit
It's only a win for the consumer if the shows they're interested in are subsidized enough by others being forced to pay for them that it offsets the amount that the consumer is forced to pay for the shows they're not interested in.

Basically it's a zero-sum game for the consumers amongst themselves while being a win for the seller.
Even Intel HD Graphics integrated into modern Intel CPUs can drive that.
I came across this a long time ago, but read it again, and laughed out loud several times. It's a good read.

It's also amusing to think of how "small" science was only just a few decades ago. I guess that's what exponential growth is.. (plus, I guess, survivor bias) Here we have one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century working at a startup for a bunch of wet-eared kids from MIT. But oh, looking at the wikipedia page of Danny Hillis (co-founder of Thinking Machines, author of the article), his thesis advisors were (drumroll) Marvin Minsky, Gerry Sussman, Claude Shannon. Not exactly nobodys either..
Single anecdotal counterpoint:

My corporate VOIP system is made of Polycom phones connecting via SIP to local Asterisk servers, and then those have interconnects to PSTN gateway services.

The quality on-campus is uniformly extremely high.

Some people have the Polycom phones at home (for working remotely) and calls to/from those are of similarly high quality, even in conferences.

Connections to cellphones range from mediocre to bad.

Connections to POTS land lines range from bad to pretty good.

Overall I would say that our VOIP system doesn't have a problem.
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PSTN uses a digital backbone these days; it's just supersized carrier-grade digital backbone, not 'what hacky software can we get on the cheap'. Phone companies prioritise their voice traffic over their own backbone and have network admins monitoring it closely, whereas your skype calls are just 'more traffic from the proles' and get to compete with everyone else.
So VoIP can be better... at the expense of needing more bandwidth. During the session initialization the two VoIP endpoints handshake over which codecs will be used (kind of like the Accepts header in HTTP). Just like images, higher quality codecs tend to use more bandwidth (though like images its much more nuanced than that). Similarly like image formats there's different amounts of loss in the encoding/decoding of the voice data.

Voice has a major difference though. Its generally a real time protocol (its data packets are called RTP and sent over UDP generally). With images you can afford to wait longer for high quality images to load over a slow network. In a phone call that delay gets a bit annoying (to put it lightly).

Most people would rather trade quality for timeliness. You ISP would rather throttle your bandwidth and may not care about your quality (to a point).

Its quite a bit more complicated than that, but in a nutshell with VoIP, "higher quality" = "more bandwidth". If you don't have the bandwidth you'll have a very hard time getting better quality. If you have the bandwidth locally, then your provider or some network link along the way either doesn't have the aggregate capacity or may be actively throttling your rate to limit usage.
There are other things that set it apart from a "typical social network"; for instance, the fact that it's floundering as a commercial enterprise.

Something has to change, and that something will necessarily not be held in common with Facebook.
Here is a paper from last month's CGO2017 conference, explaining the techniques more in detail: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cota/pubs/cota_cgo17.pdf
It's not that clear cut. If a poor person gets robbed today the cops will do basically nothing. Feudal lords will defend vs Viking raids. So, they both sit betweeen 0 and 100% on this.
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> You can watch iPlayer via a VPN or DNS service like unblock.us (do not know if they have service in Japan).

Just had to do a second take to appreciate the irony of a geoblocking circumvention service being geoblocked.
And there's a simple solution that seems to elude everyone - have filler caps on both sides. There are cars like this already(although only the most extreme ones, I think the Veyron has two, I guess it would be too peasantly too run the hose over a million dollar car). I guess it makes the production slightly more complicated, but it solves the problem entirely.
>Driver side is more convenient for filling at self-service station

But it isn't, you have the curb and pumps that prevent you from fully opening the door.

>the mess & stink away from the driver

Not really
You forgot to divide by five years.

165 000 USD per head, on average. $80M / (49 + 48) / 5

Edit: the savings likely also include things like benefits, office space, administration, etc.
The only folks who work on matrix/riot who comment on HN are basically me (project lead) and sometimes jkire (synapse maintainer). And we don't plug the project, but respond to stuff like this & questions when they come up.

Anyone else commenting about Matrix are doing so completely independently and without any input or knowledge from the actual dev team. For instance, I have absolutely no idea who sanqui is (although I share their concern that Riot Games moving into the messaging space is awkward).

We are categorically not spamming or sockpuppeting HN: I'm afraid that folks who bring Matrix up must be doing so because they're interested or enthusiastic about the project and consider it relevant (which unfortunately it is on this thread, albeit for the wrong reasons :|)
Hack is more than that. Hack solves every little stupid mistake PHP has as a language. It is a good language developed by smart people, has rules to avoid pitfalls and rules to make things more certain. It retains only the syntax of PHP, but in strict mode, hack can be compared to any other good language.
I've always wondered what Feynman's proof looked like. Is it (or something comparable) available somewhere online?
It can be as long as you have some kind of identity information associated with the request, and provided alongside any requests that are the 'same'.

e.g. Instead of saying "Insert a transaction for £20", you say, "Insert a transaction that entity A calls 1234, for £20".

Stripe use something like this to ensure that as long as you call their API to ask for a payment and use the same key, they won't charge the person twice.

https://stripe.com/docs/api#idempotent_requests
The submitted link was to an RNIB podcast that discusses the watch.

Audioboom is official home to those podcasts.

https://audioboom.com/posts/5655817-the-first-braille-smartw...

The five minute audio podcast has interviews with the company and with users and explains a bit about why this is different to existing braille displays.
The median family income for those metro areas is nowhere near $100k. I spot checked Boston and its $53,657.
> I came across this a long time ago

Maybe because it was discussed 24 times on HN already, as observable when clicking "past."

I like Feynman stories nevertheless, even to re-read.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect the key to success in videoconferencing is doing really extensive testing.

The users are going to try to transition from NATed-mobile-data to corporate-wifi-with-ssl-mitm while reinserting their USB headset and connecting an external monitor while screensharing with participants running five different OSes.

Maybe they've had time to do all that testing on Chrome, but they haven't got around to it yet with Firefox.
I'd never ever run the hose over my car as it can easily scratch the paint. If there are no pumps available with the hose on the right side, I'll reverse so that the cap is next to the pump.
The problem is that your "lens" statement doesn't convey much information; if it goes deep, unfortunately it's not obvious. For example, it doesn't tell anyone whether you think that CDM is sparticles or a quantization of a function on the Ricci scalar or of a second metric or whatever.

The latter two are awfully hard to distinguish from relativistic approaches to MOND; indeed you could quantize most of the approaches in Chapter 7 of https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3960 .

More generally, you can put a scalar or other degree of freedom on either side of the usual write-down of the Einstein Field Equations - on the R side it's "modified gravity", but on the T side it's "modified matter". There's no strong reason to choose one side over the other (Einstein and Schrödinger had a couple of letters to each other about "which side" as early as 1918![1]).

Either way you're adding a field to General Relativity -- and you'd see that in a Langrangian formulation like an expansion of the Einstein-Hilbert action[2]. There is no real reason that you couldn't quantize a field on either side of G = T (consider how g is quantized in perturbative quantum gravity, for example), and if they couple at all non-gravitationally to standard model particles, you'd very much want to.

Finally, historically, particle CDM was strongly motivated by QFT considerations in the first place, with the expectation that they would be lightest MSSM sparticles or mass-explaining sterile neutrinos on the WIMP hand, or alternatively strong-CP resolving axions. So your "lens" is standard, so I agree with your parent comment.

Lastly, you wrote essentially the same comment several days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600085 .

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6338

[2] e.g. S = \int \left[ 1/2 R + \mathcal{L}_{baryons} + \mathcal{L}_{photons} + \mathcal{L}_{neutrinos} + \mathcal{L}_{CDM} + ... \right] \sqrt{-g} {d}^{4}x.
I thought this was a really good and reasonable collection of thoughts. I was a .NET dev in a past life and left before many of the changes mentioned here. But it does seem that open source .NET has not quite taken off, and devs see some things differently than they used to (like text editors vs IDEs and functional programming vs OOP).
I doesn't yet, but you make a good point that it desperately needs a reputation system. There are a few feature requests to this effect.
Sorry to down vote, but that's completely the wrong vector. Its a network issue (of some sort - bandwidth, latency, throttling).
At home I use Ethernet, a Blue Yeti USB microphone and a solid pair of Philips USB headphones. Of course I don't know what my counterparts on the other end are using.

I guess my problem seems to be that we swapped a system that had a consistent call quality for one that is inconsistent, for a whole bunch of reasons. It seems to me, as if the general quality of telephony took a huge step backwards. And I don't understand, in an age of technical progress, why we should (or do) put up with that.
1. Remove all bullshit features: "While you were away", Cards, Ordering.
2. Stop messing with the chronological order of the timeline.
3. Do not monetize it with in-timeline-ads, many people block all accounts serving ads.
4. Remove API limitations for 3rd party developers/apps.
Understood. I will tone it back.
I somehow believe that the evolutionary pressure towards sight is so large (i.e. the benefit of sight is so great) that we're essentially guaranteed any sentient biological extraterrestrial will have it.
As in, required too much computer resources for what people were willing to pay for, and was full of bugs.

Lucid Energize C++ was way better, but bad management has a tradition to kill awesome products.

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Cadillac.html
Never is a long time. What if some day the technology exists to interpolate dropped packets (e.g., using ML) fast and cheaply enough to fill in the distortion? That doesn't seem too outlandish in the next 20, or even 10 years.
But then the same limitations are passed on to the outsourced services, and it's even less flexible because it's not just a "because I say so", it's also a contract...
Enterprises pay money for support and these kind of guarantees.
It's for a 5-year period, so about 165,000 per head per year, on average.
True fact but not really useful if this only applies to 0.01% of the cases.
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All valid questions.

re: context chart and states. The y-axis mentions "adoption". Which is the market adoption of an item. If you click a state, I explain what that state mean. I'm certain this can be improved. So for your example Heroku: Yes they could be growing, I'm not saying they aren't, but they've come into a state where their service is strongly challenged by competitors (usually left in the chart, AWS, Google Cloud).

Re: PostgreSQL and Containers. Those are my opinion in this release. I would see state.of.dev evolve into expert/community consensus based on arguments and actual chart releases.
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It is not being dishonest as alternative APIs don't suffer from extension explosion.

Also I don't believe that by following this path Vulkan will be any better than OpenGL, ES, WebGL.

Let's see how many Vulkan 2.0 will have and of what kind.
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Plenty of people would love to give their compiler time to optimise, in fact they already do, with hours-long build times of some projects. I don't think compile time is the thing holding back compiler development, after all, every time-consuming optimisation can be put behind a command-line switch to allow those who want it to use it, and those who want a fast compile can go without.