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Hi HN, my name is Robin and I teamed up with my girlfriend Leila, who works as a voice coach and speech therapist, to build an iPhone app called Astound. It’s like a fitness app for your voice.
I started working on Astound because I had difficulty with my own voice. For my last startup idea, I went door knocking around Brooklyn, talking to as many artists as I could. However, being incredibly nervous and exhausted, I picked up poor speaking habits and put too much pressure on my vocal chords. At the end of most days my voice was hoarse, and I had the constant feeling that I sounded too timid and unconvincing. Luckily I was able to turn to Leila for some help, and through her training I’m now learning how to keep my voice healthy, and turn it into a more effective communication tool. I always thought that voice coaching is just for singers and actors. Now I think it’s for everyone, whether you use your voice to captivate an audience, build trust with a customer, or sell an idea.
Unfortunately this training is not an option for most people. Vocal health can regress - one in ten Americans actually suffers from some sort for of voice disorder, which can become troublesome as soon as your job depends on it.
I’m passionate about the topic of voice. So after my last startup failed, I learned iOS app development (apologies to all non iPhone users) and built Astound. Astound includes guided breathing, voice, and articulation exercises packaged in different workout plans. The most recent plan is for dating. Yes, research actually suggests that the tone of your voice matters quite a bit. I’m currently working on a plan to help users strengthen their voice for being on the phone all day. It’s a subscription model, but you’ll receive enough free content to decide if it’s worth it to continue.
Just like with physical exercise, you will hear an improvement in your voice with practice. So my current goal is to make it fun and engaging that you’d want to practice everyday. I’d love to hear your feedback and see how I can get closer to this goal. I’d also love to hear your stories. Do you have a similar experience with your voice as I do? I very much look forward to hearing your comments. Thanks for your time!
Well, for one, you wouldn't have the leader of the country constantly saying that your company's leader is a proponent of "fake news".
How did we ever manage to get where we are today without all that? Pretty much every major company has a presence here, not sure why Amazon alone warrants all that infrastructure.
Exactly, unsurprisingly, people are surprised that when they decided to share their location with Google, Google actually gets their location.

Shocking.
Note: this is not about cheques that were rejected from clients — it’s about clients that were rejected.
On iOS

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services

Then turn off everything in the Product Improvement section, turn off Significant Locations and anything else in there you don't want.

Done
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But they need logistics centers in those areas, NOT a headquarters.
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Anyone able to comment on how Spectre is being addressed for this processor and/or even in general by its manufacturer?

https://community.nxp.com/thread/467234 (2018-01-11) basically says NXP will work with customers privately and end users should contact their OEMs.

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-patches-meltdown-and-spectre-va... appears to only cover Intel CPUs.
It doesn't even have to be bad. I was very nearly kicked out of my middle school just for booting from (!) my own live Linux USB drive on a school computer.
Documentary on this subject forthcoming -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55892jT06aI
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201220 has a section for “Security and privacy researchers”. The process is to send mail to product-security@apple.com, optionally encrypted by Apple Product Security's PGP key. A developer account is not required.

Since this page is the top search engine hit for several obvious searches (for example “report apple security vulnerability”), hopefully Mr Masri reported it there.
That'd be "Google Opinion Rewards" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...), and it does periodically throw surveys out about your travel history.
As a receiver of a lot of SWAG, all of those company shirts become pajamas until the day they go into the H&M donation bag. I can't imagine any situation outside of working for that company where I would want to walk around advertising for them on an uninspired shirt with their logo plastered on it.

I've gotten one single shirt from a hackathon I considered wearing based on their well designed logo, but the entire back is covered in sponsors rendering the entire thing garbage.
Thanks! I've been looking for this.
Great progress. For the reference, DX11 based games perform much better in Wine with Mesa / AMD, than with Nvidia blob.
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The primary reason I have an iPhone is that I want to reach friends who use Google Hangouts without having literally my entire device be logged in as my Google account.

I used to solve this by having an Android with a dedicated account, and logging the Hangouts app into my normal Google account, but that stopped working a couple of Android versions ago.
> I love NYC, but i also hate it. There is a price for density: crime, trash, prices, overcrowding, urban decay, poverty and homelessness, etc.

These read as mostly outdated stereotypes of NYC from 80s and 90s. NYC now ranks as the safest major city in the United States, by most measures.
Half the time it doesn't work. The other half I want to open it in chrome anyway so that it's in my history of recent tabs, so that I can navigate away from it easily, so that I can open it in background and go back to doing whatever I was doing before.
I can't imagine you're crossing multiple state lines in a short enough time that this is any more annoying than google maps navigation instructions.

Things like that aren't universally liked or dis-liked, but I can see that for you it was way more annoying than it is for me.

Have you checked if you can turn it off?
Only from libertarian goldbugs who don't like bitcoin, of which I imagine there are three or four.
Thought china was cracking down on this kind of thing.
It includes some csmt work, but it might not be the same as staging one. You need to enable it through registry key.

See https://wiki.winehq.org/Useful_Registry_Keys

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

+-Software
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+-Wine
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+-Direct3D
| |
| +->csmt
| | [DWORD Value (REG_DWORD): Enable (0x1) or disable (0x0, default) the multi-threaded
| | command stream feature. This serialises rendering commands from different threads into
| | a single rendering thread, in order to avoid the excessive glFlush()'es that would otherwise
| | be required for correct rendering. This deprecates the "StrictDrawOrdering" setting.
| | Introduced in wine-2.6.]
> a super dense town

Sounds like a nightmare. Ugh, just thinking about it makes me shudder.

Why would someone wealthy want to live that way?
Is there really no way to turn this off? (I don't have an Android phone).
Grats to the Wine team!

In all my years of computers, few projects have impressed me as much as Wine. It still feels like it shouldn't be possible, and yet, it works wonderfully.
I'm going to be completely honest here: If these things were behind a configuration option and defaulted to off, I'd have gone into my phone and turned that option on. I want to leave reviews for restaurants as I'm walking out of them - it serves the common good and doing it immediately is better for memory. I want to remember to download offline maps when I'm about to go somewhere where I won't have coverage. My memory is terrible enough that I can't do those things myself. Google obviously can't provide this service out of the goodness of its heart, of course it's going to have self-serving tweaks added on, but I consider those to be easily worth the value I get out of Google Prosthetic Associative Memory.
I was taking photos of locations I visited. Google Explorer's program offered free 100GB of Google Drive space once you reached a certain level. About a month after I started they changed the promotion and took away the Drive space. So I deleted all my photos and stopped taking new ones.

Never work for free.
On newer Android versions, "essential" Google apps can not be disabled or uninstalled anymore.

As this was downvoted last time I made this statement, and claimed to be a lie, this time I took screenshots on a Nexus 5X running Android Oreo 8.1 official build, showing that this is the case: https://imgur.com/a/AVmLN
Slightly off-topic:

> A few minutes before publishing this article, someone brought to my attention that a similar piece had been written a few months ago

This can be demotivating. I've been trying to remember that I should write for myself, to collect my thoughts and not to satisfy the interwebs.
Well I feel like it’s kind of easy to guess what they mean. I’m sure it’s related to spying and data hoarding and tracking and privacy issues and their incentives are highly misaligned and encourage unethical anti consumer behavior.
they do, in a sense: each review and picture nets you levels and badges, I'm unsure what those are used for except bragging rights, but you can see them in reviewers pages.

https://support.google.com/local-guides/answer/6225851?hl=en

funny that fake internet points is enough motivation to extract hours of work
Well, what incentivizes people to live anywhere? Wanting to live near people like themselves, and wanting to not live near people unlike themselves. Living where they can afford to live - most people would like to live somewhere like where they currently live, but nicer (which they can't afford). Tradition... live where you grew up, where your family has "always" lived. Etc.

Something to think about here... Noodles and Company. You know what their ad budget is? Zero. They're entirely location-driven. They build only in areas that satisfy certain economic criteria. People who frequent those kinds of areas recognize them from style and previous experience. They know who they want their customers to be.

So you don't start with "I want to build a certain way". Start with "I want to build a community of a certain type of people, with particular incomes and social values".

For example, my spouse and I live in a hundred year old house in a quiet Minneapolis neighborhood. We could have two or three times the space (inside and out) if we were willing to live in the burbs. But we live in the city proper for shared values... access to the artistic communities we love. We live where we can count on most of our neighbors to share our political values. Where we can get the diverse food we like. Etc. And if we had more money, we'd just live in a more expensive version of the same area (heck, my wife's dream house is about four blocks from ours, an old mansion on the Mississippi).
Same thing on Android is under Settings -> Google -> Location -> Location History
Huh, cool - I don't know much about their bid, so I guess I was sort of talking out my ass.

I still probably wouldn't move back if they got it, having experienced and possibly been broken by Seattle. But...I dunno, it'd probably be a net good for the area, so good luck to them.
It's probably getting bandwidth-hammered.
This is Google Maps. The option to turn these notification types is under the Notification settings for Google Maps.
Ask HN: How do you prepare for long onsite interviews?
I have an interview for my dream job coming up. I feel qualified, but also intimidated by the fact that I will be meeting with 8 different people, individually, over the course of 5 hours.

How do I best prepare, as someone who is quite introverted and unaccustomed to this intense form of socializing? I will be practicing questions, but what else? I want to knock this out of the park.
Wow, the author is surprised that when she/he shared her/his location with Google, Google actually got her/his location.

If only Google made it ridiculously easy to disable this. Oh, wait, it does:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en
I live in Rockville, MD and I couldn't agree more with the county politics.
At this point it is probably a democracy in name only.
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Love the keyboard shortcut support!
Hmm, they don't intentionally track or keep tracking data, but for cell phones to work the network _has_ to know what tower you are next to (or really what 'cell' you are in, why it's called a 'cellular phone'), to deliver a phone call or txt to you.

What happens if they get a law enforcement request with warrant/subpoena? I bet the data is there to be delivered. If they aren't _very_ intentional about scrubbing it, it's maybe there in some historical logs too.
This doesn't prevent your cell carrier from tracking you.
Yeah, Google could still be the cool company they were around 2000, if they just were not so greedy about collecting data for their Advertising business...

Another thing is that every time you start using an Android phone, all Google sync services are activated. So you have no chance to disable them until its too late and Google uploaded all your contacts into their cloud. That should be illegal.
I’m willing to wager it’s regular old floating point and it just draws the repeating bar over the repeating decimals.
I think this is politically smart and that one of these 3 will end up being the winner. The current US administration is very anti amazon. It is a little tougher for politicians and staff to publicly bash a company when 50k of their employees live and work in the same zip code.
Do you pay for their service? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You shouldn't have to opt out of spam.
There is of course, but I guess the question remains whether the data is being logged even if you turn it off (you just don't get the annoying notifications anymore).
Socialism != Social Democracy

Its a common misconception. Europe does Social Democracy but most governments do not exercise the sort of direct control you see in purely Socialist governments.
I disagree. The economy would've been fine, just as it was before the prices boomed in the 00's.

The problem is entirely caused by government policy. Arbitrary and CONSTANT expropiations accross all industries and subsequent bankrupcy of the expropiated companies caused the decline. People wanted to get their money out so the government banned forex. Then prices soared because importing was now hard as hell, so they controlled prices and everyone has been going bankrupt in a domino effect since.

I live here and I don't give a fuck about socialism/capitalism debates. This country was destroyed by a socialist government. That is all there is to say.
I've taken to immediately disabling an app's notifications entirely the first time they present this useless stuff, and nearly every app does it now. Does anyone actually WANT notifications like this?
Every democracy has varying levels of efficacy. The government there may be authoritarian but its not a dictatorship.
> but never on any other platforms

There have been numerous crash-bugs for the Windows font renderer, and even security exploits using it (especially before windows 10, as earlier than that font rendering was performed in the kernel's space rather than user-land). I wouldn't be surprised to learn of issues (at least of the falling over variety) in common Linux rendering engines and for other OSs too.
I wonder if Wine is now capable of running more Windows software than any one version of Windows is?
If you didn't see it, it's because you didn't read what he said. Read on a little bit more and you'll see this:

"AFAICT, the app was rejected because we used the words "net neutrality" in the description."

That's not from Apple. That's from him. Made up.
I got to wondering if they did switch to the US dollar would the us issue more currency would would we just experience a small amount of deflation pressure?
Bolshevism (Russia/USSR) was "democratic" officially, with The Party deciding what options were available for voting on.

It's not "democracy" when the people can't opt for what those in power don't want.
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just what happens when the one percent; read the political class; is given enough power to strip the rights of the people layer by layer until no one can object.

In Democratic countries there is a chance to vote them out. In socialist countries the laws get changed sufficiently to keep the political leaders separate from the body of representatives the people can actually elect. the courts are controlled by the political leadership, not the elected body.

when push comes to shove new laws are pushed out to "protect the people" with suitable bad groups identified. these only serve to strip resources (read money/property) from those with the means to oppose.

socialism and even communism which have never been tried 100% fail for the same reasons all governments get into trouble, the political class sees themselves as the only group with enough intelligence to guide their nation and discredit anyone who says otherwise as ignorant or dangerous
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My new year's resolution is to "get functional". I have already started with Haskell[1] and now, I want to start using FP in some toy project.

I find RamdaJS to be a perfect fit. But I can't seem to find a good, i.e. in-depth, guide on the topic.

Anyone knows a good place to start?

[1]: learnyouahaskell.com
Yeah I think the word they meant to use was "private".

Having a user check a box to agree to this along with a million other things is definitely legal (which I guess is your point?), but it's less than ideal for users.

Consumers buy a phone with the anticipation of being able to watch Netflix and Hulu and send text messages (insert other use cases here), then pay $600 for it, then they are stopped with a "oh by the way if you want all of these apps you need to tell us where you are all the time". It's legally fine but that doesn't make it non-evil.
I've seen lots of contradictions like that from the community.

"Linux is for haxorz and normies should go away!"

"Why don't more people use Linux?"

But such is expected from a large community though.
How is this a valid argument against "because it's backed up by the state's military power"? In relation to USD US can and does project military power globally to protect and or advance it's economic interests. How Venezuela's case is a valid precedent to prove this premise wrong is very hard to see.
People generally login to their Android device with their Google account out of a perceived necessity, in order to 1) access the Google Play store to get apps they're actually interested in, and 2) get their gmail to sync to their phone. There is a certain level of sending-data-to-google that is required to facilitate these functions. Android by default sends considerably more.
Yes, one answer on SO showed a possibility. The first getter overwrites a with a getter giving 2, then this second getter overwrites a with a getter giving 3. Crazy.
Not just their fiduciary duty: it makes the product better for end-users. Crowd-sourcing data on local businesses gives them a lot fresher and more granular state than they can get with an army of paid scouts.
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You could turn off location tracking on your phone. Yes, it makes life a bit more inconvenient, but it lowers the creep factor significantly.
And now you have a full device logged into an iCloud account. Which Apple is pushing even more obnoxiously (and keeps pestering me about it on both iPad and Mac after each update). What did you gain?
Turn it off in your Google account, not your phone (unless that's what you meant).

I turned it off years ago and when I read an article that says "click on this link to see how google tracks you!" I see nothing.
It is quite likely that if we made cars pay for their direct and indirect costs, the shift towards transit would make it self sustaining or even profitable, allowing us to not have to subsidize it at all.
But he is positing these as things that happen in every city. New York is better than it was but out definitely has not made these issues go away altogether.
There's a huge and meaningful distinction about the technical ability to violate your privacy, and actually doing so, and trust (slash non-creepiness) is largely about not doing so when you could. For instance, the fact that my roommate can open my bedroom door at any time does not mean that I have no privacy when making phone calls in my room; it means that I have privacy because I trust my roommate not to do so, except perhaps in an emergency. A roommate who randomly opens my door and comments on my conversations would be a creepy roommate.

iPhone gives you lots of controls around location history, and certainly there is nothing in the iPhone ecosystem where they want you to contribute reviews or human analysis to help them with gathering data. I trust that these controls work. My cell phone provider knows where I am to route calls, but I trust that they aren't also keeping the data for fun / marketing / etc.

The suggestion that it couldn't happen on other devices is certainly at odds with technical capabilities; the suggestion that it isn't happening is a different one entirely, and is not crazy.
> Collective belief is a pretty fragile foundation to build an economy on, hard to build and easy to destroy.

This, IMO, is what economic bubbles are predicated upon. It's hard to build value in our economy as more people are pushed to the side, so let's give away home loans and tether people in with good feelings, based upon poor reasoning!

It started with an arbitrary collective belief; we all just want nuclear family type lives in these all-services included by nearby strip mall, burb communities. Which is ... patently untrue. But people need a home so if that's where the action is!

And some quaint or wonk starts to see through this with data, and invents credit default swaps.

It's a crappy example; I'm tired, no coffee, and this is HN, not some economic summit, the kernel of truth I believe is there is this: Bubbles are the result of pushing social norms into the purview of utilitarian decision making for the species as a whole.
In hindsight, maybe that wasn't the best example...
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Give your requirements, Newark would be the best candidate

- EWR close by, with public transportation connections

- Strong local universities, both in tech and business (Rutgers, NJIT, Stevens)

- Newark development is rising, downtown is still relatively sparse

- Audible is already in Newark

Skeptical it will actually happen though. Wouldn't even consider myself a fan of Newark (even though I go to school here), but it's interesting that it's the smallest city on the list population wise.
Also, if they were behind a configuration option and defaulted to on, most people would be fine turning it off and forgetting about it.

This seems to be about lack of control. It's good for developers to think carefully before they ship products that do things with no way of being told not to.

EDIT: Welp. Apparently these settings exist.

I don't understand the point of the blog post then. Why is it so upsetting, if you have the ability to turn it off?
Interesting how Venezuela is being touted by both capitalists and socialists as a prime example what's wrong with the other.
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Wine is surely better at running old Windows programs than Windows itself. Especially ones that use 16-bit code.
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