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Developer here. I heard some of you try out this little app. If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it.

Would you use it in the future, if it were more polished?
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We automated a process with RPA for a piece of software that was being replaced 6 months later.

You could look at it as silly, but in those 6 months it saved around 700 work hours after it had paid for its dev time.
Thank you for the insight. What you're describing reminds me pretty strongly of pure functions. Which I guess makes sense, since "Functional languages can do concurrency out of the box!!" (well yeah, but you need to learn how to write truly functional code first :D)

>"80% of the class didn't understand it, and the remaining 20% of the class thought that manual synchronization was not a problem"

Unfortunately it seems to be this way with many things in our field (/life?). And the 80% non-understanders group doesn't even stay the same people for every topic! :)
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Been using this for a week and its intensely useful.
I personally use this for tracking interesting posts / comments I come across HN. Market research on some major up coming purchases. And sharing notes with my sibling helping out with reviewing assignments. This has now become my goto choice over google docs for non-sensitive information. (Do not mean to imply I trust google docs with sensitive information).

It works beautifully on all of my screens (phone and laptop) syncs across all of my devices (I actually like refreshing the page manually. Don't ask why.)
And the gorgeous text only interface is just too tempting to write.

I am personally promoting this within my circles.

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While I haven't used Pandora (it isn't available here), you seem to be describing my experience with Spotify's various playlists. With no personal context or ranking, the algorithms have nothing to go on except how many other people liked or repeated a song. Other people have awful taste, and seem to love to put songs on high rotation that I find mediocre.

And without decent playlists and music discovery, why would you pay a monthly subscription instead of once-off fees for music you like?
Which job would cause you to enjoy life more? At which job will you have the largest impact over the next 5 years?

$10k signing bonuses are tie breakers after you answer the real questions.
> Finally, there's the non-technical angle to this, particularly when organizations grow to be large and there's no longer the "we're all on the same team" ethos.

Sigh

This is when the tug-of-war for resources start. Be it headcount, time, money, servers or db connections in this case.

> Every time something broke and people got together to talk about it in a previous life, inevitably a question would come up: could we have caught this with a test, or with testing, or some other before-it-goes-to-the-world step? Many times, the question was just rote, since the answer was frequently "yes" or similar.

This is the kind of question I get all the time, after you get a multidisciplinary team debugging an issue for hours. Yes, had we spent the required man hours to look into the system architecture and actual behavior under normal conditions, possibly, and a whole other host of issues that have yet to happen.
Resources are rarely allocated to look into things that are not yet (completely) breaking...
>"You suggested that the doctors were wrong to dismiss a causal relationship - I'll call that "link" and you can call or whatever you like. Don't weasel."

Where did I weasel? I said you can't disprove a link based on that information. They concluded no link...

>'Could the implant have had an impact on the infection? Yes, sure."In medicine the answer to "is it possible… ?" is always "yes".'

Yes, exactly my point.

>"But is it likely to be a significant factor, I'd say not."

This is a totally different thing than concluding "no link", as did the original doctors.

But why not? They guy was kept alive for 15 years, they started doing this new procedure, and he was dead within a few months. Also, its reported elsewhere that vagus nerve activity, the mechanism by which this procedure is supposed to work, affects lung infection rates...
It sounds like the developers make some sort of “promise” to maintain the software. Not really sure how that’s enforced or what even constitutes regular maintenance. I doubt anyone is committing to an SLA for fixes for the relatively paltry sums mentioned in the article (at least $10K over two years).

It’s an interesting idea but it sounds like it lacks anything that really binds the developer to a level of service. Plus the pay isn’t “quit your day job”-good so ya know, that day job is gonna take priority. My gut reaction is that it sounds like an easy way for companies to pay a sum that lets them feel less guilty about freeloading off someone else’s work, and if the developer is more responsive to their requests, hey, bonus.
pledge is objectively the wrong model, because it's an ad-hoc set of fixed-function rules. By contrast, Linux seccomp-bpf allows much more flexibility, because you can actually write an arbitrary program to implement whatever sandboxing policy you want.

In fact, your wish list highlights the problems of pledge precisely. You can implement "pretend to succeed" and "dump core for inspection by a trusted supervisor", but only on Linux with seccomp-bpf, not with pledge.
The golden age of Opera was with Opera Mini, where they ran a massive proxy to dumb down desktop web sites for tiny mobile browsers, likely running Java. Everyone used it, loved it, and I bet it cost Opera a lot of money too.

After this, Opera is struggling a lot to set themselves apart of the pack, and in my opinion, they are failing at it. They lost the focus, and past recent "innovations" were simply smashing things with the browser.

- VPN integration built in.
- Ad Blocker built in
- Torrent client built in
- Crypto currency wallet built in

All these features, but they still have to make money too. Running ads (as suggested sites or whatever) doesn't bode well in a land where we have more popular open source browsers not running ads, and having all these features as add-ons, web apps, or one way or the other.
Just on paper, hands down Startup A. Smaller company means usually less politics. More cash (even when taking in consideration the lack of signing bonus and higher health insurance). Difference in stock options doesn't override it. You have to multiply the potential gain against the odds of you actually making that gain. Let's say you have a 1:1000 chance to make a 1000x gain. The difference in stock options is then worth ~20K. As long as you plan to work at the company for more than a year or two, then you will come out ahead with the higher salary -- especially since in a smaller company you are more likely to have seniority.

Of course, this isn't a question you should probably be asking the internet. My values are not yours. If you end up losing out on $20 million because you followed my advice, then you will hate me forever. So do what you want.
Hmm, Asian based car companies have some interesting features in their topline models. Once on cruise control, the vehicle warns the driver when they are about to move out of their lane, the vehicles will automatically slow and stop if the traffic requires it (in some case even turns the engine off when stationary) and as the traffic starts moving again, will start the engine and as it is able brings you back up to speed set.

You responsibility is to direct where the vehicle goes.

I would love to see this as standard on all vehicles.
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Evil sort of loses it’s meaning when it’s thrown a google in a world where Pennsylvania just banned books that aren’t sold through their systems from prisons, where ICE kills children in concentration camps, and that’s talking domestic issues only.

I mean, if google is evil then what do you call North Korea? Super duper evil?
> rendering them back to manual.

I don't think self driving cars will even have a steering wheel. It would probably be cheaper to buy a new car than to convert a self driving car back to manual operation.
The one with better KPI's, unless your gut tells you you won't like your coworkers.
Wonder how hard it would be to provide a Pledge API which simply passes through to seccomp.
Thank you for the follow-up and the links! I wonder if your suggestion would hold if it were put to the test and one were to implement a big and complex software strictly with the independent processes+pipes model. I could well see that you would wind up in some other sort of hell, because the problem of understanding lies not in the way it's implemented but in the complexity of the tasks involved.

>Sorry this got a little long, I could ramble about the downsides of programming in these times for hours.

Haha, programmer talk is the best!
opera is now a Chinese asset, correct?
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Don't you think it's enough? You've told this story now five or six times in this single thread. Please stop.
Thank you for your insight, Cory.
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Literally nothing, it's all 100% security theater for anyone thats takes a minute to think through attack vectors.

The only technology they make you declare while entering into the building/campus is the technology you want to take out.

So to exfiltrate data all you'd need to do is buy a burner phone, not declare it when entering, acquire whatever data you're stealing, use the burner to email it to to yourself or w/e, then just ditch the phone before you go back out through security.

There are body scanners and x-ray machines checking people, but only going out, not in.
>As someone who has fasted for a week, I can attest that much of the physical discomfort disappears rather quickly. Though, I can't speak directly to near-death starvation, nor to dehydration.

There are quite alot of reports from prisoners on hunger strikes, some of whom died. The ones I read about agreed with you. The discomfort disappears after the first week of so, after that you just get weaker and weaker to the point were you are no longer able to eat normal food.

Dehydration is much more problematic with slipping into a delirium and going into spasm. Sadly there are also examples of prisoners experiencing this, as some countries have had the concept of "dry cells". They were first used as punishment and later to break hunger strikers. Baader of the German Baader-Meinhof group for example retained kidney damage from his stay in such a cell during a hunger strike.
Not sure what you mean by 20k in options. If you mean share count, those are meaningless numbers, in that without knowing the number of outstanding shares you don't know the denominator in the denominator in the fraction. Find out all the terms: numbers of shares outstanding, strike price & 409a valuation, last round preferred valuation, vesting schedule, etc.

Other than that, A looks more promising.
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> It’s possible that biological explanations lead clinicians to see the conditions as immutable.

This an error in thinking about how the brain works, and unfortunate if true, regardless of what level of "clinician" it refers to.

Perhaps both frameworks for understanding are equally valid, but the "psychosocial" explanation is several layers of abstraction above the "biological" one.

As I've said before on the same topic [1]:
1) the brain is an organ that obeys physical laws
2) behavior and perception depend entirely on the brain
3) of course environment is important, but how is that represented in the brain? It's still physiological, which inevitably includes chemicals/biology/whatever you prefer to call it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16445950
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Too many websites at the same time cause the same issue.

If I open a site like cnn.com without an adblocker, all apps running in background (even e.g. spotify if I'm listening to music) are force closed because the phone runs low on RAM.

Every website or web app I've used so far has used > 100-200M RAM, while a well developed Android app stays below 20-50M.

My phone has 2GB RAM, 1GB is used by the OS, 500-800M are used by Google Play Services, and a web browser with 1-2 tabs takes another 200M of RAM.

As soon as I open a website any more complex than HN, everything feels sluggish.
The reason why netflix became big so fast is not because of their suggestion service or categories but because they made accessible content that was otherwise not available to them at a reasonable price except from illegally obtaining it. I.e. The content versus the small monthly fee is the power.

Ratings are actually something Netflix has proven to be bad at. They even want(ed) to remove the stars system and replace it for thumbs up. In other words, suggestions, while nice, are not why it became so big.

In the podcasts land most content is free. The shows are usually already containing the category in their title or else in their tags. This means a simple search works very well in opening a series of podcasts in any category. To know if it's any good from your app would be great but again, even netflix sucks at this. Googling for reviews is still your best shot both for series as well as podcasts.

I cannot see yet what Podflix brings over using my Overcast app and simply using the search functionality. I'm already getting all the content I want in a single search and at a great price you cannot hope to beat: free.

So I guess my question is: what problem are you solving? I would have a good session thinking about this and than broadcast very clearly on your landing page what problem you solve that I have today. This can be a problem I don't even know I have right now. However, it is not availability of great podcasts at a great price. I already have that. Overcast also gives me playlist and downloading for a ride.
Will you change it to “I’ll book” if I send you a Delibr T-shirt?
How does this compare to Pocketcast's Discover section? I guess being free is a big advantage.
How about 10 minutes and you’ll get a Delibr T-shirt sent afterwards?
Assuming everything else is a frictionless void, Company A is a better deal compensation-wise, so that's where I'd go.
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Safari doesn't do this (it's part of iCloud, which syncs all docs, not just Safari), and Mozilla doesn't tie signing in to website signing in. I do think this is quantitatively different, esp. considering Google's near monopoly on email accounts.

They are tying website login to browser login, with the intent of merging the two - that's the problem.

To users are Google who are fully invested in that corp having total control of their online life, this fuss will seem quaint and odd, but I do think it will have serious implications long term - people are turning away from search too for similar reasons - abuse your monopoly enough and people will actively seek out other options.
Don't have the chance to watch the video but highly disagree with the title.

Math as a language is just a DSL which carries a lot of historical burden that is not friendly at all.
Programming languages can achieve same level of abstraction with more clarity. Math instead added too much specific syntactic sugar(bad is multiply(b, a, d), log a is log(10, a) or log(e, a)), operator overload (/ for divide and dy/dx for differentiation operator, same grammar for scalar and matrix multiplication, one of which is communicative while the other is not), and complicated design (integral would be much clearer if we write integrate(target=ax, over=x, from=0, to=10) instead of the original one).
What does 10x better than Google even look like? The only thing I can think of is really good NLP and semantic searches, but Google has data and AI talent that's impossible for a startup to compete with there so it's a dead end.
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Well, of course. Look what business Zoho is in.[1]

"Email marketing software that drives sales. Create, send, and track email campaigns that help you build a strong customer base."

They don't have 40 million users. They have 40 million targets.

Of course they don't get many complaints. If you search for "zoho opt out", you get sent to a page with a HTTP 400 error.[2]

[1] https://www.zoho.com/campaigns
[2] https://help.zoho.com/portal/kb/articles/what-does-email-opt...
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Because it’s a collaborative environment with humans. Like a workplace. Why would pay be relevant to expected behavior? Is someone really going to say e.g that it’s within their right to be racist because they aren’t getting paid not to?
If you continue to post unsubstantive comments to HN, we're going to have to ban you, so would you please stop?
Virtue signaling... while accomplishing little-to-nothing.

Fire the Workaholics IIRC was a 37signals blog article that brings some sanity to unreasonable, unproductive patterns.
BLKNSLVR's road maintenance tax seems like a legitimate tax, fwiw.
Any truth to what I've been told that it's a point of pride for those who can trace their family lines back to those that were criminals? I've heard it's kinda similar to the The Daughters of the American Revolution in the US.
yes. But the utility shrinks as soon as you walk into the risks. The headline story is great. The reality is going to demand the same rigour around offline and online wallets.

Plus, we just incentivised the bad guys to try harder. Up to now, the risk has been "steal my CPU to do DDoS or mine" but now the risk is steal my money
The standard advice, which my personal experience backs up, is to value startup stock at 0 when negotiating. Survival plus Liquidity at a good enough valuation without preferreds wiping you out are very uncertain.

I would look at team, is the work interesting, location/office and cash.
I am pretty sure the answer involves vertical video
If you treat any HN user as uncivilly as this again, we will ban you, regardless of what happened in 2014.

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In case this is a serious question: federation, with servers kept running by stakeholders of whatever the email's needed for.
You said it yourself, Google’s raison d’etre in some ways into these markets was that they were not evil anticompetetive Microsoft. Today, they very much are. Arguably they were always this way, but dark patterns like this is a new low.

And no you don’t need to be North Korea to be evil. That is a meaningless comparison. Coincidentally Google has started working with regimes similar to NK; The PRC. Is that not evil?
That's assuming you have job offers at established companies. If a start up is all you can get, then there's no tradeoff.
Clicked through hoping to find a company that is going all out spending big on a vast array of podcast creators and content with hopes to dominate the space through sheer numbers and low subscription fees.

I think we may have differing views of what makes Netflix Netflix.
We're all being trained to click through warnings. Smart people won't get caught by malware stealing their cryptos from the wallet? Sure. Thats good. Darwinism in this space means dumb angry people with financial loss. I can't be totally happy about that. Can you?
Or you can just search any podcast episodes: https://www.listennotes.com

Nowadays I don’t subscribe to any podcasts. I just find interesting episodes and add to playlist — like pocket/instapaper — episode-centric, instead of podcast-centric. https://www.listennotes.com/listen/

And if you want to build an app, you can use podcast api: https://www.listennotes.com/api/
I wonder if we’re not already at this point though, and it might not be a bad thing.

Not everyone uses a browser the same, but a decent part of people here will spend their working life in the browser. I think for people here it won’t be rare to have dozen of windows with each dozen of tabs, some logged in different acconts within the site they show, some in incognito, some with in developer mode.

Even with just the browser filling multiple windows worth of buttons and stuff to interact with is easy, without even going to hidden preferences and configs.

I’d argue in complexity level we’re already on par with a airliner cockpit, it’s our job to deal with that, and we do it professionaly for years. Of course not everyone needs that complexity, but at least we do.

What I am getting at is, I think we should accept we’re not a t the point where it is simple anymore, embrace the complexity and give tools to effectively manage it.

Airliner cockpit are so because it’s efficient to have individual switches to important action and state indicators. We shouldn’t shy away from showing important info in the interface just because we’d end up with more stuff. Having it hidden can be a worse tradeoff.
This. Google's carrot stick is the privacy yard.
Why are the pipes useful for the fork bomb? Or is it just a visual thing?
I would wager fewer hours coding and more doing exercise, yoga, meditation, getting massages, sauna, etc. would lead to greater productivity per calendar unit time.
Yes, it's maybe intentional, and just using the rule "Never attribute to malice that which cane be attributed" as an indication that there isn't any malice is stupid because it's getting you to change your mind about the kind of thing going on without evidence.

It's like saying Occam's Razor always gives you the right analysis of how things are. No, it only gives you the best guess given that you've taken everything possible into account. But here it's worse, because it's not taking into account all of the other times Google has infringed a common-sense understanding of privacy.

Whether or not it's more likely that Google is intentionally crossing this line, rather than it's just merely possible that they're intentionally doing it, depends on other information. In this case because it's unlikely that Google is really that's stupid, because they're good engineers with strong QC practices, so it's more like that there is some kind of intention involved. Not to be "evil" but to deliberately do things that deny the social value of avoiding surveillance.
As you say, you can access it on GitHub for no charge with a Creative Commons licence. That's free by any definition. Alternatively you can pay cash for a physical copy or ebook, or pay with a tweet for prettier HTML. And yet you've still derailed the whole discussion with your complaint. You've dressed it up as "giving some feedback", but in the first sentence you're straight up accusing him of deception, which is not good faith, constructive comment that we expect on a Show HN.
That is not true. I don’t know what really happened, but there was some specific trigger in the last week and people at Instagram are freaking out