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Show HN: ProcessMaker.IO is a workflow engine in the cloud. Need candid feedback
Our project is at: https://www.processmaker.io/

We built a high performance workflow engine in the cloud aimed for developers. It originally was intended as a BPMN focused engine but you can also create complex workflows programatically without any BPMN diagramming tools. Think of it as a platform that goes well beyond ITTT or Zapier. This platform means we can do services orchestration and serverless programming (using our script tasks which currently support LUA) as well as human enabled workflows (think of using forms and approvals, etc). We have SDKs in most major languages and we're aiming specifically at developers as the target audience. This would be perfect for ISVs looking to embed complex workflows in their product but not have to build the workflow features themselves.

The problem I'm seeing is that understanding workflow from the beginning is a hard concept. The on-boarding process for a developer to understand the value and to immediately get started is something we're trying to get over. We have various use case examples and video demos that show how you could use it, but I still don't feel comfortable yet with the 1st time experience.

So I'm sharing in hopes that anyone can provide feedback/thoughts? Or even if you have questions on how things are done (which would help us with our messaging). Docs are updated and you can sign up and fire up a workflow engine right away to play with (it's free right now so we can get people playing with it). It's at www.processmaker.io and any suggestions/advice for improving the messaging on the website is also really appreciated.

The project is in public Alpha right now, so if something isn't working right, please bring it up so I can have the team fix it up!

Thanks all.
> Put another way: today you can still get the same type and quality of care that was available in the 1960s,

No, in many cases you can't because the techniques and absence of procedural and other safeguards are no longer up to the standard of care in the profession, older drugs are no longer produced, etc.
This is very interesting thanks for sharing, but I am not sure if it totally kills my point. I assumed face was isolated from clothing/hairstyle/background already, but believed facial expression (etc) was the main thing being looked at. If this VGG-Face tool is sufficiently good at making expression (etc) not be a factor, this is potentially a huge deal and some of the worries in the gay community may be justified. Excuse my generic HN skepticism but I will need to look into how legit VGG-Face is before I start thinking about what this means.
Similarly, Square's Cash app has had quite a sleek physical debit card offering for some time now.

https://cash.me
Looks like https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
Why do you say "under the thumb"? People seem to want to be able to live there. They do not see it as oppressive at all and it looks liberating.

Americans might find this a bit different because of the notion of "Private Religion": that your Faith in God should only be limited to one day out of the week. There are plenty of places in the USA where people go to for camp that are ran by the Church.
If you live in a town with a Whole Foods, you already know it's there. And nothing physically changed to the stores overnight.

Announcing a price cut seems way more likely to draw in comparison shoppers to see what cuts were made, and if they compare to people's current regular supermarkets.
Same user name on Voat for reference if you want to get further into this debate.

I have been on Voat since close to the beginning. 3.2y because I was banned from Reddit for a disagreement with an admin.

Now you claim that Voat is full of racist and hate groups. I won't deny that there is quite a lot. Thing is that it isn't nearly the amount you want to make it seem. A larger base isn't ever going to participate within those groups. They will look into it.

We have also not been kept afloat due to the cash donations from the Donald. We have been kept alive because of the efforts of admin and many good people that want to develop the site in order to make it lower cost to host.

I can't speak for others but I do know that we do not go looking for new members within Reddit. We do however get many people that have been banned from various places within Reddit. That is what it is all about.

You won't understand that because you want to show a side that would make a vast majority knee jerk and react the way you want. Keeping them under your thumb.

By all means come over and see us. Check it out and post your views within /v/whatever because within that subverse your submission will not get deleted unless it is spam.

Keep in mind spam to "US" is when someone is trying to sell something without paying for an ad. I encourage everyone to experience what true freedom is. You may like it.

So either way please start a dialogue.
1. You are perceptive, this is usually something to watch out for. However, it does not always indicate that a study is flawed, just that the research might have met with unwanted resistance, and the authors are in position to avoid that resistance.

2. Yes, these scientists are looking to make their research popular, highlighting an unfortunate conflict of interest present in academia. They do this to get big grants. Important observation, but insufficient to dismiss a finding out of hand.

3. So many authors, such a joke! These people mostly just help collect data, or sometimes simply share data they already have and then give the manuscript a quick read before publishing. But that is actually beside the point. If a lab already had data ready, and isn't pressured to add authors for political reasons, then two authors is not necessarily a red-flag. In fact, these analyses are relatively easy to do with available software. If they have the data, they just plug and chug.

4. The findings of the paper suggest strongly that friends are more genetically similar, on average, akin to fourth cousins. The results have yet to be rebutted to my knowledge. The fact they found some regions were negatively correlated does not conflict with their overall results. I have some doubts that their regional analyses should carry much weight (e.g. olfactory and immune regions). Furthermore, their explanations using natural selection appear to be a stretch. These are possible overstatements of results, allowed because of your points 1 and 2.

My overall impression of the paper is that main results are somewhat interesting and entirely novel. But there is a ton of stretching for just-so stories and "interesting" findings that will be unlikely to hold up. Typical PNAS.
That gets boring fast, if you go by the evidence the only player in the self-driving space is Google. Ironically they are the most restrained in public statements while there is a long list of pretenders announcing they'll ship in 2020 and already discussing far-fetched (entirely) philosophical scenarios, like the whole abortion of an discussion we had on "should the car hit pedestrians or save its driver".

The whole conversation is unfortunately poisoned by endless wishful thinking instead of discussing hard evidence. I mean there is still a large proportion of people on here who think Tesla will somehow leapfrog Google because they have all those cars out there streaming the raw video data from their umpteen cameras back to Tesla HQ, utilizing an imaginary mobile communications standard that leapfrogs LTE by two orders of magnitude that they invented alongside their LIDAR-less L5 autonomous car software in record time.
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The thing is, for car driving you need combinatorial search combined with a good model (statistical) of the world. Research I've seen does not incorporate any kind of meaningful search.

Company that has all the roads and surroundings scanned and knows exactly where the car is at all times is at a huge advantage.

Partially observed world gets your head hurting. Not modelling other cars practically makes everything useless.

If you can't hallucinate everything around you as close as possible, the problem gets very very difficult.

I'm pretty sure there are companies close to solving the problem, as they have more data and some also know practically every road in the modern world.

Modelling and tracking other cars is a bigger issue, including pedestrians.
Maybe because it's an homonym to John Doe. Sounds like a programmer joke to me. Some kind of "image placeholder".
The author actually considers Galileo to have been a self-promoting second-rater (at best) who has been inordinately over-praised, and he is not at all happy that Galileo is presented as a sort of secular saint who stood up to the church, so part of his paradox is to include Newton and Einstein but exclude Galileo from the pantheon of the Great Scientists.

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/extracting-the-stopp...
Cheers for the tip, looks right up my street and is on Netflix
Is i being overwritten by an error?
To expand on this slightly, patio11 (the guy who wrote this comment^^) has written a phenomenal post about hiring that's a must-read: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Interesting, do you then always forfeit the credit card rewards to your friend? Everyone's situation is different but usually credit card points can be quiet valuable coming in at 3% to 5% of the swiped amount.

(For example, $1000 spent on wining and dining over a month can equal approximately $20 to $50, depending on how you spend your reward points).
Most of us would agree with you, I think what OP is saying is that it's irrational to say things like "It's 2017, who murders people anymore!?". People still murder, but we should definitely continue to try suppress that behavior.
Show HN: Slackbot for telling you who is WFH and OOO that week
I love these cards (Google Wallet used to have one, Square Cash now offers one too) for a different reason from possibly intended: they're a great fallback in case you want to make a purchase where contactless phone payment isn't supported but plastic is. I keep one in my running armband with my phone in case of emergencies and it never leaves the band. That way I never forget it, and if I were to lose it somewhere, I'd still have all of my regular credit cards.
> Sprawl will never be environmentally sustainable. We need cities that you move through by foot, bike, and public transit.

And yet https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/opinion/cities-suburbs-ho...

"Despite the hype around “micro-apartments” and other innovations intended to cram more people into less room, many Americans still want space. They want to live in detached suburban homes, or in an apartment with enough square footage and access to outdoor space that it feels like one. Two-thirds of people born since 1997, including those who live in cities, want to live in single-family suburban homes, according to a 2015 survey, but the costs make this aspiration prohibitively expensive in most urban centers."
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EV that you can drive >300 miles on a single charge - completely novel.

EV that accelerates from 0-60 in under 2.5 - completely novel.
MIT (and I assume others) have collected data on these types of scenarios. For example, swerve and kill a bunch of people, or stay the course and kill a mom and baby?

http://moralmachine.mit.edu/
Perhaps not, but you certainly can use "Donald Trump's America" as a shorthand label to describe a cluster of circumstances, attitudes, and their associated causes and effects. There is definitely a DTA. To use the label doesn't mean he created it, just that he somehow embodies it.
True, this is much more "instant" and definitely has a psychological effect of only working with the separate Venmo money you've accrued.

I think the next frontier of these bill-share/social payment apps will be in tighter, seamless bill-share integration. A store where I can easily split the payment between a few people at checkout, or a restaurant that has the Venmo addresses of everyone in my party at the time of the reservation. No need to photograph receipts and split after the fact.
Which phone and how long does the battery last?

I find it us developers tend to readily dismiss low-end, even "middle of the road" hardware when we ourselves use high-end hardware.
Considering Google is a major sponsor of the project, I'd say likely never.

Not to mention that Google has been pushing hard for https on all sites, which is exactly LE's goal.
Since Charlottesville, there have been two changes in public discourse that I've noticed. First, free speech even for despicable positions is now equivalent to Nazism in the eyes of many. Second, Westboro-style language is now acceptable if the victims are the South. Plenty of people being unironically joyful over the hurricanes.
It's getting better, but now the lack of roundabout knowledge can be exploited to travel much faster. So many people wait in the left lane when going straight through, leaving the right lane free to breeze though.

I do think the non standard roundabouts have become more dangerous now that people are more familiar with the "typical" layout found on ira needles. I was travelling north (or east in the parlance of this crazy city) on Bridge St this weekend. I had just crossed the grand and entered the roundabout intending to take the 3rd exit for Lancaster (left turn). This roundabout is odd due to the lane markings. I was well into the roundabout and had the right of way when a bus entered travelling south (west) on Bridge to turn right on Lancaster. We nearly collided (and if we had it would have certainly been the bus' fault) but I was able to brake in time. I am certain the slightly bizarre layout of this roundabout made it look like I was going to continue on Bridge and therefore it was safe for the bus to enter. I live in this area and this has not been an isolated encounter. The roads all have a single lane entering the roundabout but a special lane appears in the roundabout for taking the 3rd exit for Lancaster. This was likely done to increase traffic flow but results in real confusion for people entering from Bridge the other way. It would likely be much easier if there was just a single lane all the way through the roundabout (like Margaret&Union) so it was clear there isn't room for multiple vehicles in the roundabout at the same time.
Nope, I don't believe it for a second. There's no way these can run in the rain, or maybe even after dusk, and absolutely not off of extremely well researched and hand-picked routes. I'm so sick of companies trying to pretend like they've figured out level-5 self driving.
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When they do the stupid that other CAs have?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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I went in last week to pick up a couple of things. The store was extra insane with people. I looked but didn't see anything marked down. My thought as I exited: "suckers".
Franz is basically a browser wrapper around all those messaging services. As Signal doesn't have a Web UI, Franz can't really easily support it.

Yes, Signal-desktop is being rewritten to Electron now but I doubt it's suitable for in-Franz integration
Not to mention this completely ignores the fact that most subreddits have active moderators who remove hate speech.

If a user is forced to discontinue use of a subreddit where it's allowed and continues to use subreddits where it's not allowed, then of course you're not going to see an uptick in hate speech. You've done nothing to change their mind, however.
I love the concept but I don't want (and the company I work for seriously doesn't want to) to run our processes in the "the cloud". Seriously.

I'll look at this seriously when there's an onsite version. Open source is better. I'll gladly pay for support.
> financial/credit checks, drug testing

There are sound reasons for these kinds of checks; you may not entirely agree with them, but they do exist. For certain industries, it is almost mandatory to use them.

They all basically exist as proxies for determining how honest or trustworthy a person is. Can the person being hired be trusted to keep our proprietary information confidential? Can they be trusted not to pawn their laptop? Can they be trusted not to sell company secrets to someone they owe a favor to?

Questions like that can be somewhat answered by the results of such tests. If, for instance, they have a bad credit score, it may mean that they run up high bills on their credit cards, and don't pay off the balance in time, or miss payments. Why would that be, if they are being payed a decent salary? Could they be coerced by someone to lend them money in exchange for say - a list of passwords to some servers? Or a dump of the database?

Drug testing is the same way; if they test positive for an illegal drug, that right there is a huge red flag that says to the employer "this person is in contact with people doing illegal things" - and again, coercion or extortion are possible here.

Depending on the employer, these proxies may or may not be overkill. As I noted above, you can make valid justifications for them even in a white-collar software engineering role. It should go without saying that for certain roles (financial, medical, heavy equipment) that having a trustworthy employee can mean the difference between "life or death" of the company, liability risks, or injury/death of the employee or fellow employees.
> Cruise reported to the California DMV that they averaged on unplanned disengagement every 180 miles through 2016

Isn't this disengagement rate several orders of magnitude too high to support fully autonomous vehicles?
As long as other cars (or humans, or animals...) are on the road, robot cars will face these scenarios.

The OP's scenario is contrived to make a clear example, but it happens regularly when you're driving: you're forced to make a choice between acting and possibly hitting something, or doing nothing and being hit.

We don't need self driving cars to solve the 80% case of preventing human drivers from hitting things. We need radar and auto-braking, which already exists. Full autonomy requires solving the harder problems.
According to https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/ they have removed the waiving of rights from their TOS.
This goes double for Safari, which filters out any text in tab names that is shared between two or more tabs.
Probably some time after Let's Encrypt shows some form of negligence while issuing certificates.
Same here, except I had someone make native apps. They were bad and unmaintained for a long time (solo dev here as well, running a small business). But still, people used this Android app that didn't receive updates for 4 years(!) over a mobile website where I put a lot of effort into.

At some point, I gave up. If apps is what people want, I make apps. After a looong process of deciding between native and hybrid (build with Ionic), I finally settled on Ionic. The result is actually quite okay. People love it. I can maintain two platforms with a single code base and will probably rewrite parts of the web app with Node so that I can share core code between 3 platforms.

How all of this will turn out in the long run, I don't know. Maybe I'll outsource app development at some point again in the future, now that I have a working product that is exactly as I want it to be.

Seriously, consider releasing a Cordova-based app. Slap some functionality on top so that it won't be rejected by Apple (Website-only wrappers aren't allowed). Maybe an offline storage or whatnot. This shouldn't take too much effort and you might be surprised that new customers find their way to your business.
If you do server side rendering, and you have to if you want your page to display with no script on, you can safely put your style in your JS with most of the techs around and have proper display.
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Exactly. And to be clear, the malfeasance by Symantec is voluminous and well-documented: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Symantec_Issues

Distrusting Symantec is not an arbitrary action as some people seem to believe.
What makes that different from a normal credit card? From a consumer protection standpoint you're probably better protected against theft/loss with a credit card than with these specialized debit cards, so I'm not sure I see the advantage.
Lol where do you live that everywhere accepts mobile pay? Some utopia in the sky?
Fidget spinners are literally revolutionary...
Hey! Sorry I didn't see your comment earlier!

You can archive the downloaded articles manually, directly on the Kindle - I'm adding support to auto-archive downloaded too.

I used to use P2K and en2kindle as well - built this as I wanted to add support for a few more sources and format it as a single "book", instead of delivering individual articles
This looks much like Sciter[0], but without declarative CSS and built-in scripting.

0. https://sciter.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15217112
Arizona. Their weather and regulatory climate has Waymo, Cruise, and Uber all testing there. I believe Michigan and Florida are also willing to permit fully autonomous cars on their roads, but most of the action is in and around Phoenix.
> Are you aware of this case...

How is it relevant? It was in a university hospital in a country with a secular government that legally allows terminating pregnancies to save the life of the mother. There wasn't a Church-run social institution unless I missed something.
Curious - how are paid (and taxes taken out) if your employer doesn't know your SSN?

Unless you're a contractor and using a "company" tax ID number, or being paid "under the table" in cash, bitcoin, or other goods...?
Providing a user with a list of recently or relevant tickets being sold is cool. But Manually adding them to a user list does not help the customer. Especially if they mark them as sold after being "available".
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I don't see that the author has clearly copied anything there. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. This situation only proves open-source licensing is in a bad shape.

Actually it is horrible. See, for example, the criticisms and questions being raised on the whole thread about this library.

(Until anyone point a better alternative, I'm for "if you don't want anyone using them, don't publish your sources".)
Yes, but its hard work- and maybe that hard work is not always worth the effort.

So instead of doing hard work, we decided to make tools to circumvent the bugs, for example by avoiding buggy routine executing personal communication - and instead discuss that paper online.

Work with the smart, no matter what skin colour, instead of doing the PC-Dance.
New York City just recently passed a law banning salary history inquiries. I hope that other cities and states start following suit. Good coverage of it here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/dealbook/job-sal...

The idea behind the new law, which was sponsored by the New York City public advocate, Letitia James, is to try to prevent pay inequality between men and women. According to an August 2016 study commissioned by Ms. James, women in New York State get paid, on average, only around 87 percent of what men get paid. Women in New York State earn collectively some $20 billion less annually than do men. In New York City, women get paid nearly $6 billion less than men annually.

This inequity gets memorialized not only when a woman starts a job but also when she switches jobs because until now employers were able to ask prospective employees how much they have been paid in the past. The pay inequity gets perpetuated year-to-year, person-to-person across industries.
One of the happiest days of my life was when a Symantec support person, very courteously, helped me remove every Symantec product from my computer.
The advantage is connivance - if I could just get 2 of my regular visa card I'd do that but OPs idea is great.

Additionally loss can be controlled, since you can easily control your venmo balance as opposed to a traditional debt card.