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Ask HN: What is the “best” SaaS ERP system? What's important?
Adopting an Enterprise Resource Planning tool is an aspect of my job that I dread. Here is a list of things I think are important for the decision:

-Totally based in the cloud (we manage 0 hardware)
-Offers good web applications for non-technical users
-Well-documented feature-rich API for engineers (Twilio’s API docs are the gold standard here)
-~Instant/phone technical support to troubleshoot API and general Qs
-Good documentation overall
-Ease of data in and ease of data out (no lock-in)
-No Contracts
-Affordable

What are your experiences with ERPs, HN?
But they haven't changed their CO2eq output by much. I love the other renewables (I see nuclear as much as a renewable as solar), but there's still problems with batteries and storing energy generated. The IPCC recommends nuclear because it's the only current technology we have to tackle this problem. And no pro nuclear person is saying 100% nuclear. We want a well diversified portfolio that doesn't include fossil fuels.

And I want to be clear. Look at the numbers of deaths from the three major accidents. (I'm on my phone so I'll try to remember to edit this to provide sources), but not that many people died or are predicted to die from Chernobyl, Fukushima, or Three Mile Island (which has a count of 0!) There's more people dying in the US every year from just the air pollution caused by coal plants than the total (already dead and predicted early deaths, find the highest number too!) From those accidents.

And I'd rather deal with a Coke can of highly radioactive waste a year than train loads of low radioactive waste a day (coal). In the end we do the same thing with them. Put it in the ground.

Yeah, there should be better options. Fusion is extremely promising. I'd love to see batteries become better and more environmentally friendly to make. But we're not there yet and we don't have time to wait. For these things to be invented. Build nuclear now. When those come to life, build them too. But we can't just keep arguing and do nothing. It is time to worry. It has been time to worry for awhile now.
In some areas, tall grass becomes a habitat for snakes, which can be problematic for children.

For most areas, it's aesthetic.

Here in the south-east, a short lawn will have no mosquitoes but a grassy area will have plenty (as in you'll get 20-30 bites in one evening outdoors), so that's a strong motivation.
" Then Thorkel brings out the broken bits of "Graysteel," which had fallen to his lot when they parted their heritage, and Thorgrim forged out of it a spear, and that spear was all ready by even and fitted to its haft."
http://sagadb.org/gisla_saga_surssonar.en

This reads to me more like just using the metal as raw material? Obviously some 'nuance' will be lost in the translation of ancient sagas though.

My intuition is that if everything is hand made to order, theres nearly no down side to fixing/ remaking versus making from scratch. I'm interested to see how far that went.
To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes
i don't see how LotW requires consensus? you could have a bunch of sites which just take these signed logbook records and store them, and make them available for other sites to download. the records verify themselves by virtue of cryptographic signature.
I briefly had a (failed) startup in this area, and I did a lot of research. There are certainly a ton of clubs that do this, and there's an obvious reason why: in nightclubs, your product is your customers. They don't show up for your mediocre DJ or overpriced drinks from a bartender that takes an hour to get to you, they show up because there are people there...and a line communicates that there are people there.

So yes, the reasoning behind this is solid, but the problem is that the results aren't. What happens when the person who has waited an hour in line finally gets in and the club only has 20 people in it? They see right through your sham, and they never wait in your line ever again.

I've interviewed quite a few managers of successful clubs and tons of managers of unsuccessful clubs. The unsuccessful clubs are the ones trying to create the illusion of a packed house by creating lines outside, or other illusory shams like guerilla marketing. The successful ones definitely do most things better (food, drinks, ambiance, music, etc.) but they also rely extremely heavily on a similar illusion: they don't pay people to wait in line, they pay people to drink and dance inside the club. They literally have a Rolodex of professional partiers...typically young and attractive, mostly female but not exclusively so. They are people that don't mind dancing and having a good time when nobody is around. Successful clubs pay them to get there early and create the illusion of a party that is already started. They skip past the need for a first follower [1] by starting the night with 20 followers.

Paying people to stand in line may trick people into thinking a club is popular, but it won't trick them into having a good time in an emtpy club that they waited hours to get into.

[1] https://getlighthouse.com/blog/first-follower-principle-lead...
Is there even a market for Google? The median income in China is like $12k, and most Chinese net worth is tied up in property that's widely considered to be in a massive bubble. Not sure it would be profitable at all for Google. I work in the industry and we don't even waste our time in China, Russia, etc, since the advertising dollars are worthless.
Probably most frequently to other farmers. Your neighbors land might come up for sale once in your lifetime. For crop farmers, that's the only way you can expand your farm.
How much was Bezos making while Amazon was in the red? Or Jack Dorsey?
First genome-wide major risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Can I wipe first few sectors and last few sectors?
You can use "class(*)" and the "select type" construct, and yes, polymorphism.

So to compare to C++ or Java, it a bit like inheritance and RTTI. Not generating type-specialized functions at compile-time like with C++ templates, which is what's needed for high performance.
Way too many of them. I expect sysadmins to be dealing with systems whose datastore is a gratuitous blockchain-derived thing for the next twenty years. And all the programs are "smart contracts", which we used to call "database triggers" and "stored procedures".
It's this - the margins are so slim on commercial farming that they are in the grocer range (1-7%) and the only way grocers make money is on volume.

The one-off farms are great for those that can spend extra but they are not the ones feeding America right now.
The Godfather of Fake News
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> Its users are scientists and engineers; not computer scientists and software engineers, but the real ones.

If you're going to belittle a portion of your audience then at least try to be funny.
How can you demonstrate or prove that the impact is “real”?
China will create designer babies with extremely high IQ (150%+). There will be no way for the rest of the world to compete using good old fashioned nature, so they either become irrelevant, serfs, or also start using in-vitro CRISPR editing. This will lead to AGI in a single generation (so about 30-40 years).
That's a good point. Hierarchical parallelism is becoming increasingly important, so having one language that can be used both within-node and between-node is very convenient, and could add to the lock-in factor.
To some extent, I believe all tech companies are capable of moral failures like this. It's impossible for the profit motive to always align with ethics. It's all a question of scale, really.
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College-educated cops enforce the law more aggressively
I am also a Google employee. Dragonfly needs to happen, no matter what random SJWs say.
>>Although give it a generation more and people that are currently 40 will be able to adapt new tech much easier and accessibility is going to be much less of an issue for the foreseen future

Unfortunately no, it will not. My father would have no conceptual issue operating a smartphone, but he does not have the dexterity required anymore, in fact he has issues just using a keyboard. These things happen with age, accessibility concerns aren't going to dissappear simply because people know how to operate the devices. FWIW, this is a man who knew how to touch-type, but as he has gotten older he is simply less dexterous. There is more to accessibility than just hoping people know how to use the software.
> Vincent is in the lobby, do you want to meet them now?' Them who? Vincent and his unannounced friends? Maybe Vincent is actually 3 kids stacked on top of each other in a trench coat?

My them example was in reference to the parent's phrase, not a general prescriptive. And in your example, while them would be a bit odd, from context you can gather them refers to Vincent alone. If there were further people one would likely be saying Vincent and his children are in the lobby, do you want to meet them now? In either case, I was primarily referring to they.

> And what do you propose for all the languages where nouns and verbs and adjectives are gendered?

I don't. I was explaining they usage that a lot of english speakers seem to not be aware of. I agree with this linguist:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/08/singular-they-prono...
If this were a criminal enterprise I'd agree with you, but I can imagine any of us putting together a document scraping/resource website and not having any qualms about it.
It's pretty cheap to buy the obfuscation service when you register domains, he probably did not have a lot of money when he started.
OTOH, AMZN and MSFT have never even hesitated to accommodate the Chinese govt's demands. Which other companies do you think would be more ethically conscious than GOOG in these circumstances? (I don't work there.)
Which reality is it distorting? Is the old desktop search reality? Why is it more real than mobile results? In truth, none of them are reality. Google Search is an algorithmicaly curated list of web pages - it’s an unfortunate error to believe it represents any reality other than Google’s opinion of what its users want in that second.
Lol, I love seeing that no idea is completely unique. I have been thinking about it a lot over the last month. I am honestly wondering what your ethical concerns are with this "digital replication".
I heard my old physics professor say "In FORTRAN GOD is real"
Like many things here though there's a chicken and egg type scenario. Society mostly started with increasingly isolated tribal groups. Over time, and lots of killing, the most successful groups started to form into larger and larger groups. And the most successful individuals among these most successful groups were in turn on top of the top. At some point leadership implied what was an extremely high probability of a genetic advantage. And that advantage can persist through the centuries. It can also deteriorate.

A great example of this is the House of Habsburg. [1] They were one of the most powerful families in history completely dominating Europe politics with lineages of kings and emperors throughout the entire continent for some 5 centuries, including holding the throne of the Holy Roman Empire for more than 300 years. But the reason they're an interesting example is because they're also the namesake of the Habsburg Jaw - a genetic deformity that was greatly exaggerated in the family through the years due to excessive inbreeding. If you've seen a cartoon depiction of royalty they often are drawn with the extreme protruding chin, which is a reference to this deformity and family in particular.

That family was almost certainly extremely genetically fit at one point. But through excessive inbreeding they destroyed their own genetic lineage. In Spain this was especially pronounced with Charles II. [2] He was described as "short, lame, epileptic, senile, and bald before 35." He learned to talk at age 4, walk at 8. His Habsburg Jaw was so extreme he could not chew his own food. He, unsurprisingly, died childless at the age of 35 - ending 200 years of Habsburg rule in Spain. And to emphasize -- this is just one example. This family did not just rule Spain. They had lasting dynasties in Germany, Hungary, Croatia, England, Boehmia, Ireland, Portugal, and many other nations.

Today, the entire house of Habsburg is extinct.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain
Yet pundits on both the right and the left seem to be shouting "Ya-hoo! The economy is great!"

I don't really understand where that's coming from because it takes a minimal amount of research to figure out that the BLS unemployment statistic tells us virtually nothing(even Adam Ruins Everything covered that). Wages have been stagnant in comparison to productivity since around the 1970's(adjusted for inflation), the labor force participation rate is in decline, I don't know anyone who doesn't think housing and rent is absurd right now, Americans are buried in debt, medical care is expensive and often enters scam territory, etc.

And we're supposed to become entrepreneurs? lol

Things aren't adding up, and we're probably not going to even accept that we're in a decline until we're well into it.
Hi, author here!
As you know software is eating the world. It's a huge market. But only a "few" millions of people can program and the other billions of people are just consumers. With this project, I try to change it. In other words: "IDE as an appliance". ChangeOver is closer to Office software than average IDE.

Please keep in mind it's an alpha version(2nd release), so use-cases are limited. Next build will have drawing functions(graphs, etc.) and better multimedia support.

I'm trying to offer whole platform experience, where IDE, Rendering, GUI, File-system, Network, Database and Interpreter work together as a one piece of software. Please try it and If you like it or even If you don't like it, please send your feedback and feel free to ask questions.

-Milan
So you need a trusted party to perform an audit, a trusted party to verify votes with original voters (so, no secret/anonymous voting, so you need a trusted party to handle personal data, a trusted party to destroy that data after elections so that the winner doesn't abuse that data) etc.

So, you mean "solving them in a blockchain context requires a set of awkward workarounds that undermine the core premise... In fact, if you look at any blockchain solution, inevitably you’ll find an awkward workaround to re-create trusted parties in a trustless world."

So what problem exactly does blockchain solve for voting that isn't already solved better and more efficiently now?
The biggest problem is that after this initial, high value work is done the designers are still on the payroll and they still need to demonstrate their value/be doing something. That’s how you get un-necessary UI redesigns and, arguably, custom typefaces.

IMHO, designers just don’t know when to stop.
Not really. Paying the taxes with USD doesn't generate a taxable event. Paying with Bitcoin does.

Sure, you could say "Technically, you'd pay taxes on earning those USD...", but anything said after "technically" is irrelevant to the discussion.
I believe this to be the biggest problem of nuclear power, not the risks of an accident. So while we have cheap energy today, the cost of containment will be paid throughout thousands of years. This doesn't make any sense from the economic perspective.
I agree. At my local farmer's market, pretty much all the vendors sell their produce at a loss because they can't compete with big agri-business. (They continue to participate though, mostly for fun.)
Show HN: CV Compiler – A Python-based tool to improve tech resumes
If that one employer made it public that they chose not to deal with MRAP repair, I would wholly choose to do business with them and spread the word that they have are a responsible corporate citizen like wildfire.
Fast Pair Update
In my area, again anecdotal, no local guy has purchased property over 5 acres at any land auction in the last 5 years. Either mega-farm-corps have, or hunting/outfitting mega-corps.

The huge companies get involved and take the price for 40 acres from a relatively sensible $120,000 (what I purchased at 10 years ago) to $750,000+.

If you can't work at a scale that is so much larger than anything a family farm can, then you're priced out immediately. And if the farming mega-corps are not interested, it's because the ground isn't fit for row-cropping and the mega-corp nationwide hunting trek outfitting companies will double your bid without blinking.

It's a sad state of affairs, really. The only people who have enough money to play the game are either corporations or are in their 90's and bought the ground when it was $30/acre.
How about people who work at MSFT, which capitulated to Chinese censorship with nary a whimper (and hence no publicity)?
China stopped buying soybeans and other produce from the US as part of their retaliation to Trump's tariffs.
It's true that public corporations have to answer to their shareholders, but they are not legally required to maximize profit.
I wonder what the correlation is between "took a long time to become productive in Rust" and "uses Rust rarely."
From the article:

When a scientist talked about meeting an investor in January, for example, Gmail offered the follow-up "do you want to meet him" -- not considering the possibility that the investor could be a woman.

The problem is a typical one with natural language generation systems like Google's: it's based on huge volumes of historical data. As certain fields tend to be dominated by people from one gender, the AI can sometimes assume that a person belongs to that gender.
A Cure for Cold Feet: Why It’s Time to Open the Door to Outsourcing
I hire with anonymous data. I would look at a statement like '25 years experience' on a CV and completely ignore it, as I have no idea how competant the candidate is based on this. I would look for the key technical words and impact statements in the CV to show depth of experience rather than general statements like this.
People are going to fake a lot more degrees and other qualifications.

When they come in for an in-person interview racial/gender/age/whatever bias is still going to be there.

Only way to prevent this would be to forbid in-person interviews before hiring/signing a conract, but then companies would presumably simply stop hiring from applications, because the qualifications are unreliable and they can't get a character impression of the applicant.

Hiring by reference from existing employees would become the norm (maybe it already is).
> It stll excels in the good old structured programming. It has features that mainstream C-like languages lack. For instance, it can exit or continue a loop from a nested loop.

You can do this in C with gotos. The other things that are mentioned are similarly easy to implement–they just don't have a particularly nice syntax.
>you must have a Macbook

Technically you just need macOS, I don't think there's anything stopping you from doing iOS development on a hackintosh.

I'll agree that the process is pretty ridiculous in comparison to Android though.
Israel won’t settle for Airbnb’s settlement snub
Really? I don't know that the story is especially important, but it seems like plenty of other tech-related stories which are equally or more political or business focused, don't get 'flagkilled'.

Frankly, I feel like people here are often a little too quick to flag anything that they simple don't like, and it's annoying and kind of cheap.
Using Wallaroo with PostgreSQL
There have been many subsequent studies in different regions all cited in the article and all finding a precipitous decline.
There are tons of studies out there showing monocultures are bad for business. In your case, I'm sure your IT department had to interact with women on occasion. Having women on the team will allow the group to be aware of social considerations specific to women that they may otherwise miss.

The people who reviewed and approved the designs for our office space were all males. Guess what they forgot to put in the women's restrooms? When women complained, they put an open trash can next to the toilet with no lid...

The problem with the whole conversation around this topic is everyone pretending that women and men on average have the same level of skills and experience as each other. Then they act shocked when there are so few qualified male nurses or female mechanics.

Businesses only care about this topic, because it helps them design products and provide services that address a wider market. So, maybe they should just admit they don't always hire the absolute technically best candidate as the goal is to improve the social structure of the team.
CRISPR co-inventor responds to claim of first genetically edited babies
Yes. You just described the split perfectly.

Small scale production is going for specialty products, at higher prices, to specialty consumers. Think of a local vegetable farm that sells to farmer's markets, or a goat dairy that's making chevre to sell at specialty groceries in a 50 mile radius of their farm.

On the other hand, gigantic companies are increasingly controlling land used for industrial agriculture. Near me, a recently incorporated LLC (aka holding company for investors) just paid $171-million for 14,000 acres of irrigated farmland in Eastern Washington [1]. At that scale, there's simply no way that the traditional "small family farmer" can compete with industrial ag.

The few that have near me, are large families that essentially operate like a business. They've managed to hold on to their traditional farmland, and then expanded into what are essentially family-owned large-scale industrial ag operations. Good for them, but they're the strong minority.

[1] https://www.heraldnet.com/business/big-farm-deal-171m-for-14...
A very interesting perspective, thanks. Perhaps a little surprised to learn there's not much investigation into those areas.

I imagine my reading choice may reflect my background and pick out some that focus on more military, tactical and technical areas. So a fair criticism too.
And if Google happened to be run by Larry Ellison or Rupert Murdoch trust me we would be paying for every single search query being run.

Value matters.

Even if they aren't perfect. Even if they cannot be achieved. Stating and restating your values simplifies moments when ambiguity and uncertainty and suffering test you.
Google Pixel Slate review: An expensive work in progress
Unfortunately, this is made difficult to "bootstrap" due to npm not supporting/promoting repeatable builds - so you'd just see a diff of minified messes with no ability to track back to source code changes. You'd want to do this alongside a rollout of a larger ecosystem around cryptographically secure repeatable build tracking, which would take time and require "drag-along" of the entire ecosystem of abandoned packages.
Agreed. But this many Google employees acting collectively, including some very senior and long-tenured Googlers, meet that additional condition.

(Disclosure: having worked at Google I know some names on that list personally, and respect them greatly. I haven't worked at Google since early 2015.)
Creating dynamic grid layouts with JS
If you step back from this article and read the comments, it is actually really funny to see how passionate people here are about accurately characterizing blacksmithing hundreds of years ago. I say this as someone who has done a small bit of blacksmithing and am an interested party in this conversation. The intensity of the comments here is hilarious.
Lol yeah. Including themselves, I guess.
Lucky you! I've not been so. ;-)
Same here. I was born ugly, so bring on genetic enhancement