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It's a market issue. Databases are a very competitive business with lots of options and competitors. It is also extremely hard to sell.
> One of my methods is to simply read comments at sites like HN, Slashdot, Fark, and maybe even Reddit.

That's a great idea and I've found companies exactly like that (although as private companies - scouting for a VC). We're really in an advantageous position working in tech because we know which companies are doing well and where companies are spending their money.

One disadvantage is that a lot of gains are privatized or with VCs - and some of the best performing companies remain private for longer - but there is still some growth in public markets

I tend to follow the cloud, infosec, social and other tech public companies. I think the SaaS stocks are a bit overvalued at the moment, and there are too many that spend too much on sales and marketing to fuel growth. One of the great benefits of SaaS was that it could infiltrate companies from the bottom up and bypass the S&M process and customer acquisition costs, but there really aren't many of those - and even those companies that did do that, have ended up spending a lot on S&M

I did like Twilio a lot - I liked the Authy acquisition and growing out that way. I'm not sold on the "integration without programming" promise - a lot of companies have tried just that but it hasn't worked. You need dev platforms and developers. I was hoping Twilio would provide a drop-in oauth/openid server for enterprise because the current solutions there suck (serve both internal, intra and external auth backed by LDAP, AD, RDBMS etc.)

Theres a lot of value in their global integrations and routing - but i'm also not sure what the ceiling is for voice + SMS and outside of a handful of countries in emerging markets most messaging is application layer. Being able to push messages via WeChat, FB, WhatsApp etc. would be interesting

But you're right - can't go wrong with long term investments in these markets - either a fund or a basket of stocks you know. The Motley Fool posts are usually good value on getting up to date on some stocks, although there is a lot of people talking up or down their own investments there with what borders on FUD sometimes.
The article mentions several reasons for blocking IP-based voice and text chat programs. This type of confusion is common in other countries in the region. Lovely part of the world here (posting from Jordan, where Skype reliably, consistently drops after one minute or less)!

> regulations aimed to protect users’ personal information and block content that violated the kingdom’s laws.

Censoring content.

> Saudi Arabia began blocking them from 2013, wary that such services could be used by activists.

Blocking political dissent.

> The decision to lift the blocks could negatively impact Saudi Arabia’s three main telecoms operators - Saudi Telecom Co (STC), Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) and Zain Saudi

Protecting business revenues of traditional telecom companies.
To me JDK9 and Jigsaw sounds like a viable alternative to Electron. Cross-platform, well-known mature language, distributable standalone app bundle includes the runtime and takes ~15-30 MB zipped or ~80MB unpacked on disk (I tried swing UI, but I would expect JavaFX to have similar results). I don't remember RAM usage details (I tried it a few weeks ago), but I wouldn't expect it to be higher than Electron's.
And there are major differences even in the EU. The wage gap for a developer in the V4 compared to e.g. Germany (UK/Switzerland in a broader context) is staggering.

https://www.wageunion.eu/

https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
> Because there are 9 people waiting to take his job if he quits.

As the article points out, Japan has an unemployment rate of 2.8% and even there wages are not growing.

When the unemployment rate is that low, there will be no one waiting to take on the job if the worker quits.
For locating things accurately? Imagine I found a fossil in a rock field and wanted to share its location with you - you'd want more than ±5m accuracy to find it.
Of course. Everything can both be used and abused. And maybe the inventor can abuse it the most of all.

It seems though, regarding the complex dependency on encrypted information, abuse can have epic results in a very short time.

Everybody can purchase a huge analysis network in minutes and have the information crunched in almost any way possible. Maybe paranoia, but quite possible as well.
Who works 200 hours a month? That's either five 10 hour days a week or roughly seven 7 hour days a week. My time off work is far, far too important to me to be working either of those options.

It seems I value working less than other people. I'm fine with that.
I always hated Java but really like Go. Think it's because the Go culture and ecosystem strives for simplicity.
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I mean, how erratically are you running? My pace wouldn't vary much over a typical 200m.
> Promote it on popular sites where your target users spend their time.

Yeah, I don't think we are your target users. Enough with the Dust spam already.
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> Wages aren't growing because people aren't worth more. Most job growth is in low-skill jobs.

This is a silly, self-defeating argument.

Wages aren't determined by "worth". Wages are dictated through negotiations, and they are set based on the worker's negotiating power. If a worker is incapable of negotiating, nor does he have negotiating power over their company's representatives, then he is bound to get the raw end of the deal.

This is precisely where unions and worker's commissions play a central role in the problem. When an isolated worker tries to negotiate with the company, more often than not he faces professional negotiators skilled in cutting down salary expenses. The odds are, from the start, stacked against the worker's interests. This problem is mitigated with the help of an organized worker force, as they can provide professional services negotiating job offers and leverage more power over the company's representatives. Therefore are able to get much better deals than the average worker acting alone.
I am always amazed by big open source projects like this. It's impressive on how high quality everything seems.
Not growing also means not compensating inflation and rising prices. So basically wages are shrinking if corrected for those.
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Assuming you're serious, probably not. Intent matters and they aren't threatening to release the data, only monitoring if someone else uses the already released data.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. Before deciding to blackmail, you should consult a qualified attorney in the appropriate jurisdiction.
The article actually covers that.

With the existing L1 signal the multipath signals overlap each other and its hard to find out which the original signal was.

The newer L5 signal is much shorter, so multipath signals will show up as individual peaks, and the receiver can simply pick the first signal, cause that will be the direct one.
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Thanks! Good question, the AI part is clear, it will indicate if there is a big chance of break. The AR will help the operator decide without going to the actual break whether the AI is correct.

The AI only suggests, does not decide on its own. As such, an operator will be able to see the break in full detail (the top and bottom and up close) to better be able to decide whether to continue production, or do a reweld.

Also, sometimes the AI will not be able to provide a good input, as new materials might be welded together and no data is available for them. In that case, again it's up to the operator to actually give the go or no-go.

The AI will inform the operator after about 2 seconds, the operator then still has about 8 seconds to finalize his decision.

The current prototype is not really usable, as it has some big usability issues. We might work further on improving this prototype with the organizer, depending on their interest.
Only in the USA.

By comparison, the minimum wage in Australia is about to be raised to $18.70 an hour.
It's fun to think about but I don't think it makes sense b/c sleep obviously serves (at least for human beings) the awake state.
To add a counterpoint to all the apologetics, ADHD as a cause rather than as a symptom is a point of view dominant in the US and not shared by most of the rest of the world. If you're inclined to take drugs to try to fix it then so be it, but you might want to try behaviour change first.

[FWIW this reply and "advice" is not directed at the parent, kobeya, but is a general point of information.]
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Are there any MyFitnessPal alternatives that don't force you to log in so that they can monetise my eating habits?
To hazard a guess, maybe a Telco?
americans do a lot of driving and places might have dirty water along their route.
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> Employee compensation

The article didn't say total compensation. Most articles only consider the paycheck as compensation, and do not include benefits.
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If you download any image then that image can be used as a pixel image to track you.
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On the other hand, everyone would love to hire someone who produced 10x their compensation, meaning they'd bid up the compensation to their productivity minus the opportunity cost.
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or a running app that creates a route as you're running, so say you want to stop for a car so you turn an keep running in the new direction it could recalculate immediately and get you to one of your waypoints more quickly.
We can and we do, http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/24/us/florida-teen-wins-top-p... (following those outcomes would be great research indeed)
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Is 3.0 available in a pre-release state to any degree? I would like to try it out but don't really want to invest into a platform specific scripting language.

Edit: Appears your link is essentially what I asked for above.
The first song I recall experiencing this effect from is Pat Metheny Group's song "San Lorenzo". And it still happens most times I hear it.
Also, RTK requires tracking the carrier phase. And in turns this requires the receiver being kept on all the time, which is power hungry and just not acceptable for low-power / on battery applications.

Whereas the dual frequency approach can be used in the same way as "regular" GNSS, using all the low-power tricks to sleep as much as possible (with some accuracy vs. power trade-offs). Of course there will be a power consumption penalty vs. a single frequency receiver: the two RF chains, and the extra base-band processing. The later can be mitigated by better nodes (the article mention the chip being 28nm, so low dynamic power). The two RF chains impact of course can't be avoided. But for some application it may be worth it.
He writes: A rich API provides methods for inspecting and controlling all available objects and their run-time and persistent properties. This makes it possible to replace configuration files with GUI tools. Many desktop environments provide such tools.

That is wrong, if I don't misunderstand it. It does not matter much for the possibility of GUI tools whether they talk to an API or whether they parse and write configuration files. That is stuff you abstract away.

It is of course possible that pulseaudio allows settings to be set that didn't exist before. It's API might be better for that - but that doesn't say you couldn't do the same with writing to configuration files if they had the same capabilities, like targeting a specific application (one of the use cases he mentions below).
What is remarkable, and it pains me to say this, is that Microsoft isn't on that list. With all the telemetry data they collect, they might have some good data stored. I'm sure people are trying to hack it, even right this minute.

They seem pretty capable, so far, of keeping their own collected data secured.
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>>Actually very much - if a large corporation controls access to water effectively than this might very well be a consequence.

If the water was bottled somewhere close to Africa, you might be right, I guess.
If a union wants to negotiate, then you just move the manufacturing to a cheaper country. There is plenty of labor willing to work at a lower price, and that is what happened.
Almost all of this is impressive and looks great, but personally I am not a fan of "VisualScript".

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-getting-more-languages

I have yet to see a "Visual" programming environment that is even close to as efficient as normal programming. I may well be in a minority on this one, but surely time spent on this would better be spent in other areas like improving C# interoperability etc?

I know the intention does not appear to be to replace actual programming, but I think their use-case is weak and put in because it was someone's pet project. Not trying to be ultra-critical, but just think this is wasted resources, which could be better spent elsewhere.

Interested to see what people think about this.

EDIT: Should have phrased this better. So to be clear, I am asking what people think about the relative merits of Visual Scripting and not what part of the project has a higher priority.
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Obama is not close to the center according to https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

Clinton and trump are on https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

I find the site reasonably unbiased.
Pulseaudio definitely needs to be demystified. As an average user it sometimes feels like black magic that sometimes doesn't do the right thing. But in recent years is been leaps and bounds better.

I'm not sure whether that's due to distribution maintainers giving very sane configurations or that pulseaudio development has been focusing on sane defaults.

Eitherway, if you're one of the people involved in giving me a audio experience on Archlinux/Fedora, please pat yourself on the back because you're doing fine work.
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> There's enough publicly available evidence that she mishandled classified documents.

In the same way that many people did before her and in the same way that people continue to do now. Are you proposing to prosecute everyone the same way?

Why is it suddenly an issue when HRC is doing it but not when Gowdy and Chaffetz do it? Or when almost the entire Trump administration is doing it? Or when the Bush administration "lost" 50M emails they were supposed to have kept?

Hint: If you only have a problem with it when HRC does it, you probably want to check your sexism and misogyny settings.
Not a "language" enhancement per se, but I find Collection Factory Methods a nice improvement.

https://www.sitepoint.com/ultimate-guide-to-java-9/#collecti...
At this point the surprising headline should be when NFL players are found to NOT have C.T.E. I really don't understand how the NFL is getting away with this so easily. I guess they have good PR? People just like football so much that they are willing to ignore it?
this is already on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15308043
The difference is significant. I lived in Cleveland, OH for awhile, and their city has some of the best tap water in the nation. Did a stint in the Bay Area and the difference is immediately noticeable, and this was before anyone brought it up to me or I had read about it, so there was no chance of being influenced by prior opinion.
I'm not sure this is at all accurate. Source: I'm in Saudi, and it's not working at the moment- unlike the other apps.

There's been a big deal made out of the lifting of the voip ban since it's been a pain in the ass for users for years, but they specifically stated that whatsapp and Viber are excluded (though Telegram is present somehow...). CITC, our local FCC equivalent, said that the the requirements laid out in the unblocking decision are 1: having a "clear mechanism for contact and cooperation in emergencies" (I'm guessing this is partially euphemism for intercept court orders and similar as well), 2: being open to removing illegal content, 3: having a clear and robust data protection system in place for users, and 4: making it possible to call emergency numbers [1, Arabic].

Obviously a lot of these can be technically impossible like the one about being able to call emergency numbers, and for those with e2e encryption a lot of the content requirements are impossible too. But hey, baby steps I guess- the telecoms are livid about the lost revenue stream, and people no longer have to use VPNs for friggin' Facetime to work.

[1] https://sabq.org/%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AC...
I feel like we already have tons of examples of people not really working for the money. CEOs of major companies typically have more than enough saved to just live indefinitely off the returns of that money. And yet, they don't.
Wages aren't growing because people aren't worth more. Most job growth is in low-skill jobs.

I tend to agree with you, given the level of automation. Automation is having 100 engineers in charge of updates, all across the world, instead of mailing floppy disks, fielding calls etc etc.

However the state should tax--one way or another--the "robots." As we know, tax rates have varied throughout the history, and are used to advance society's goals.
> The conventional wisdom is that it works better to get big with an unsustainable revenue model and convince people you can make it sustainable than to stay small with a sustainable revenue model and convince people you can make it big.

This used to be called fraud, but now calling it out as such is thought of as regressive and anti-entrepreneurial.
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This is a very bad idea. It's easy to get enough DNA, covertly. You're constantly shedding DNA-containing bits.
Outlier anecdata: I know a guy who survived a accident, that would have pulped him, by beeing flung out of the car window.

Which just proofs that you can find data for every case- and the disappearance of the glasses-haematoma from ERs is great!
I didn't say that this particular behavior is unjustified - of course handicapped water supply will make people come up with alternative supply solutions which will discourage implementing a reasonable water supply - a vicious circle.

Also from a holistic perspective there is a relationship between no reliable communal water supply and people driving with own car instead of public transportation which often doesn't exist.

Public transportation is just another resource in an abstract way - logistical resources. Don't exist as well. US is fundamentally about "take care of yourself". This just won't work in overcrowded areas.
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How does this compare with iPhone 8/X, which supports the Galileo system, as well as GPS and GLONASS?
> Part of what killed wage growth was the demise of Communism.

Also, communism was so inefficient that it basically took the countries under it from international competition - they couldn't develop anything advanced that would match products created under capitalism, and so were essentially forced to sell resources (eg. minerals, food) or low-processed industrial products (eg. steel) in exchange for more advanced stuff such as medicine or electronics, for which they paid through the nose. Basically, the process was not dissimilar to colonialism that preceeded it, and created massive growth for capitalist countries - so much so that in the US people doing unskilled work could afford a good life for their family on a single salary. Now that communism is dead, those unskilled people in the West are unfortunately in for some rude awakening (already in progress).
It doesn't seem completly rational to say "all kinds of other crap", but maybe I'm wrong and you have examples of which kind of craps. Tap water is usually enough regulated for it to be safe to drink.
Show HN: Harmonizely – Schedule meetings without back and forth emails
For those people that manage to get up pretty early, 4-5 in the morning, how do they cope with the weekend and what kind of weekend schedule do they have ?

What time do they usually go to sleep and what is their noon daily pattern (weekday and weekends).

Most importantly how do they spend their time after 7pm during workdays and weekends ?
Hi,

my name is Raph and together with my friends, we are building a tool which helps to automatically set meetings with others, without exchanging back and forth emails.

We know there are plenty of apps like that, but they don't perfectly fit into every use case, the value of the existing apps is not satisfactory or there are limited features.

So, we have created a simple website where you can put your email address and we will notify you once the tool will be available.

It would be really helpful if you could give us some feedback about the website and the idea in general, either you like it or not and of course feel free to sign up.

Or if you have any questions, I will be more than happy to answer them.
Water is bottled in Africa! But before it is bottled it is turned into Coca Cola.

In a lot of African areas Coca Cola is cheaper than clean water! Just think about the health impact.

Nestlé buys water then turns it into something trademarked and sells it. That's free market - and it's a huge shit and should be stopped.
Mailchimp is rather large, but 2017 I have the feeling 37Signals is rather insignificant, e.g. compared to Slack.
Nestlé is a global corporation. So you have to look at it from a global perspective instead of narrowing down your focus on some random city in the US. It's an attack at humanity not just on Michigans.
Note that while well explained, this is a very 90s way of implementing a GPS receiver. As I understand it modern receivers use FFT-based correlators that have much better cold-start performance than the old-fashioned design because they can test very large numbers of possible correlations at once (generally hundreds of thousands of them).
It took me about a month of on/off attempts to get audio to stop routing through HDMI every time my desktop came out of suspend and I still have a basic understanding on how the audio system works on my machine. While I praise the open source community for everything they've done it's still really hard for even an advanced user to understand how things work. Its flabbergasting at how it has reached this situation.
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No it's called in German risk capital (Risikokapital), because you know the risks.
Could you name some of those titles?
This isn't the official site by the way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15295146
Will this threaten Unity's/UE4 market ?
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With the minor caveat that the "free, open economy" (which is really neither free nor open, but I digress) contains strong incentives to prioritize growth and short term profits over other considerations. From the perspective of most shareholders, the only thing Telia did wrong was getting caught. I'm sure they'll do better next time.
>30% of hospital payroll is admin staff

Interesting. Any links to back this up?
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I prefer the version of Hacker News from four months ago to the current version, and all of the viewers listed here, even on mobile. I wouldn't think my opinion would be niche.
You've been reading Hacker News wrong your whole life.