skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any reason that a standup is superior to sending an update email in the morning and many reasons why it's inferior. Mainly, it's a tool for managers to feel important. That's it. There's no need to optimize that except to make it go away, for which there is a great need in this industry. If it was a tool for managers to get updates, they'd use email, chat or something saner. Standups put developers under pressure unnecessarily and offer nothing to the development process in return. It's sad that they even exist and they're a perfect example of managers who don't know how to manage and can't figure out a proper way to stay updated. They make developers angry and less productive because now the developers are stressing over what they're going to say in the standup rather than developing. Yet another terrible idea from the agile camp that seems to have no shortage of such terrible ideas.

EDIT: Note that all the information available in standups is also available on a board or ticketing system for a manager's perusal anytime. That to me proves the uselessness of the standup and its only purpose being to make managers feel in control.
"disgruntled ex-employees"
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Added this to the article: Overview of the Best Github projects https://medium.com/@RecurVoice/overview-of-the-best-github-p...
They've had the injunction for two years, but haven't initiated a recall in the meantime!

"Cover up" sounds accurate to me.
This is, however, used as a dodge by Agile proponents (okay, more specifically Scrum proponents, but the other "Agile" options have mostly receded) to avoid answering to the significant criticisms of the methodologies involved. "Oh, you changed it because we said it was flexible and could be changed? Now you're doing it wrong, the methodology(tm) is fine."
> Giving a foreign entity control over your data and key is not "privately".

Yeah, if you have this concern strongly, well, we're working on browser extensions which will prevent any potential risk here. However, like I said to someone else, unless you reverse engineer every update to your OS, you really shouldn't be commenting. This is just as much "giving a foreign entity control over your data" as using an OS provided in binary form is giving a foreign entity control over your CPU, which would be far, far worse really. Unless you're manually validating the code in all cryptography products you use, there's really no argument to be made here.

> Encrypt the image with the public key of your friends and send it to them, that is privately.

When you do this, say using PGP, PGP generates a static key, encrypts that key to their public key and encrypts the message using the static key.

This is essentially the same thing, the only difference being that the Up1 does only the static key portion and does not provide the public key portion, which you can do out of band using whatever method you prefer, be it PGP, SSL to a private server, OTR, TextSecure, etc.

And it allows the transfer of images and small files in this secure form to be incredibly simple and fast. Pipe into a command line tool or use ShareX, paste that link over a secured protocol and you've securely shared a file.

Of course, if you don't trust the public Up1 instance, feel free to run your own, it's all open source, server included.

> And, worse, I have to activate JavaScript, which decreases security by a lot.

It's a trade-off, privacy for a slightly increased risk of security, these days you're more likely to get exploited by a fucking web font than by a script though.

Worst case, like I said, don't trust the public instance if you don't want to (well, if you're the type who doesn't trust their OS provider at least). You can always run it yourself or wait for the browser extensions.
If you do something new and it's popular and shows potential to be a big business, other people will compete with you; that's how markets work. Some of those people will try to innovate and out-pace you, and others will simply copy you. Some will be scrappy startups, and others will have deeper pockets than you; that's inevitable.

When Facebook launches streaming video, should we be angry at them since they have way more money/users than Twitter, and because Twitter did it first?

If Meerkat has built something defensible, then they'll be fine. If not, nobody should expect them to just be deemed the only company that can do streaming video. During Twitter's history, many people tried to pop up and knock them down to take the lead - but Twitter was tenacious and had an awesome product, and they won.

It's a long game and Meerkat can still win it. If one early competitor is enough to crush them, then they probably weren't going to make it anyway.
You would be going after the right market, 95% of people just pay their ticket ;)

However, by lowering the barrier to legal representation it is our goal that TicketTitan may increase the percentage of people who fight. For example, did you know that in most states by paying a ticket you admit guilt of the violation, which often results in points on your license and insurance increases? Fighting a ticket in Court, even without a lawful defense, may result in dismissal, no conviction, no points, no school, and/or reduced fines.
The mass rate doesn't tell you anything without a speed to go with it. I don't know what speeds you'd see here, but at a random guess I'd say it's probably under 10m/s. That gives you a thrust of 3000N if it's all in the same direction, which it surely isn't.

67P is estimated to have a mass of about 1e13kg, so 3000N will accelerate it at 0.3 nanometers/s^2. If it spent a year at this acceleration, the total delta v would be about 1cm/s.

I'm sure some of these numbers are pretty inaccurate, but that would seem to indicate that it's not much of an effect.
Thank you for the reply.. I understand that for texts you could utilize SMS gateway, is it possible for you to reveal how you programmatically access WhatsApp and Facebook Messages..
I assume the software/hardware is so simple and specific that adding something like back off blocking would require memory chips, software, timers etc increasing the complexity dramatically.
> Twitter ripped off Meerkat.

Seems to me that Twitter built a truly massive social media platform with hundreds of millions of users interacting with short real-time updates in a semi-public manner. An accomplishment nearly no other company has ever done.

Meerkat had the remarkably obvious and unoriginal idea of having this hyper successful platform also host some live streaming video. In implementing this obvious extension to the Twitter platform they ignored the effect of their intrusive updates on the UX for everyone else in violation of the terms of service.

Twitter decided that the experience of posting media on Twitter is their department and acted accordingly. In the process Meerkat's founders and investors were deprived of the opportunity to become billionaires in exchange for a few months of development and a trip to Austin. My heart breaks at this injustice.
Whoa, that works on objects/properties? I hadn't seen that before. That's nice.
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Minor correction: alpha particles, not beta particles. Alpha particles are helium nuclei, while beta particles are just electrons.
It feels like this is for people who have a good understanding of all the technologies that bitcoin uses, but have never looked at bitcoin.
> a quick way to deploy security fixes remotely

Right, what could possibly go wrong?
Where can I register as a locksmith, and what's my cut?
Something interesting, and backed by some clinical research: 'rhythmic entrainment'.

https://brainshiftradio.com/about.html

Their web app plays 2 tracks simultaneously: rhythm & ambient. Personally, I listen to 'focus' tracks constantly while working.
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thanks a lot! Downloaded many images for interesting things from there. :-) this will be my hobby for the next weeks.
> fancy data structures like lenses

I think you mean zippers. I'm not sure if lenses can be called data structures. They are closer to Functors than say Linked Lists in nature (but I may be wrong here).
Terminal attacks are not new and the solution isn't to expect every individual program to escape terminal escape codes.

The ideal solution is to sanitize all data before displaying it
on your terminal, however without a custom terminal application
or data filter, you can't guarantee that every tool you use on
the command-line is going to strip escape sequences. The
responsibility should rest on the actual terminal emulator; any
features that allow file or command-line access should be
disabled by default and more attention should be paid to new
features that implement any use of escape sequences. [0]

Are you cloning untrusted repositories to your computer and running git log blindly?

[0]: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920
The amount owed is about half his yearly gross income. If he goes to work, it's entirely to pay money to his ex, not keep it for his kids. He can't pay it back in any logical sense before he dies.

Although now she owes him child support every month. But any payment she makes goes right back to her, to be deducted against what he owes her.[1]

Friends and family have given him a place to live where he acts as a stay-at-home dad, since for now working is useless (and the child require 24/7 monitoring by adults). If friends and family were to give him the money to pay off the debt, it would just give the money to his ex, and there is no guarantee that she would then start paying her side of the debt.[1] I guess she would then be the one unable to get a driver's license and go to work and pay child support, which is "justice" only in a weird warped sense of the word in that they each have suffered the same kind of injustice, and doesn't really help the kids.

[1] The ideal situation is to just have both debts neutralize each other and disappear, but it's not clear that this would be binding even if you could get the two angry ex'es to agree to it -- parents have signed off on child support in the past only to have the courts put it in place anyway, since the kids couldn't sign it away.
I'm pretty sure some of us need move east, some need to move west, some need to start digging and others need to start building towers. Me, I need to dig into the ground for about 90 meters at a 43 degree angle to the north. But it's a small price to pay if it keeps my watch running.
Are we ? The mass Internet surveillance by the u.s. gov was known well before snowden [1], albeit the specific actors were not. Post snowden I've seen public outcry lead to a destabilization of NSA meanwhile private corporations are collecting more data than ever--is this really freer?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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What if the car was parked in a handicapped spot near entrance of a football stadium? It could conceivably receive enough incorrect RFID signals to trigger a back-off.
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Rent will eventually servo to what the market will bear, and salaries play a big part. Remote jobs may be a easy around this linkage. If you can line in a small town where a significant portion of the residents are making low wages, you can beat the landlords at their game.
> The Smog Free Tower is not only a final solution, but a sensory experience of a clean future.

That's... interesting wording.
Object.assign does not work well when you have classes. For one of my projects I came up with a small helper to clone class instances: https://caurea.org/2015/07/19/generic-immutable-objects-in-j.... In addition to cloning, it freezes the new object so accidental attempts to mutate it will throw an exception (in strict code).
Which them are you using? It's a custom theme?
i like to think that music makes me more productive as a sysadmin, but it really doesn't. i'll start thinking about the song i'm listening to more than the task i'm performing. it reduces my alertness and productivity.

however, the act of simply having headphones on my head makes me a great deal more productive! the number of drive-bys i receive at my desk drops dramatically when i go into antisocial mode.
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DNSSEC is not DANE. All DNSSEC does is prevent MITM injection of DNS packets which is almost certainly one of the techniques QUANTUM INSERT uses. So no surprise he thinks DNS should be hardened against it.

And as Chrome experimented with DANE then removed support for it, I don't think you have to worry about that either.

But even if you did - so what? There are CAs in areas controlled by the American and British and French and Chinese governments already. I don't see how it makes anything different.
This doesn't reflect my experience at all. I'm not at all a fan of Agile as a practice, but I am a fan of well-run standups. Update emails can tell a manager what they want to know, but incentives virtually never align to get the rest of your team to read them and be up to speed on what everybody else is doing. And that's why standups work: you get a little face-time with your entire team, away from the desk, and it's a chance to have everybody's undivided attention for a minute or so and to get them rummaging around the attics of their brains for things that might be relevant to you.

You say what you did and what you're planning on doing. If you are worried about the optics or politics of saying what you did, I would reflect on whether or not that's an issue, either with the team, its management, or you personally, separate from the process of a standup meeting itself.
This sounds nice.

So this bandcamp site, is it like an indie itunes? I notice you can sample the whole song without paying. I use soundcloud is good for free music.

I'm kind of thinking it'd be nice to have a monthly what are you listening to while working thread.
This is an absurd technical accomplishment. Identifying and cloning 21 genes on its own is a ton of work, but doing so in a way that replicates a synthetic pathway is amazing. Hats off to the scientists who managed to get this to work.
> If someone wants to interact with you, they will definitely find a way to get your attention

Fair enough. However, this does not account for a whole class of subtle little interactions and questions that might be inconsequential one at a time but add up in aggregate to a whole new useful body of communication.

It's when you turn to a co-worker to ask a quick question and open your mouth and then pause because you see them with headphones on, and then give up on asking the question, because the question is actually tiny.

In many many cases, that's how it should be - people deserve their focus time, and we know how much programmer distraction costs. But there is also huge value in team members being available, in the serendipitous "overheard" tidbits that often save duplicated effort, keep the team cohesive and un-siloed. In kind exchanges, not requests to RTFM.

My point being that some (not all!) periods of time deserve to be "open office hours", where people sacrifice some of their focus and invite others to bug them seemingly frivolously. That means taking off headphones and letting oneself be distracted, soliciting easy quick questions. It may seem to conflict a lot of individual productivity advice, but it can help grow the brain trust of the team as a whole.
This is a great project Matt. We're working on similar things at UserDeck [1] and I think mobile support is going to be huge. I think you're getting a lot of feedback that may be a demotivating as HN has a lot of developers, but not many business minded people which is what I've found is who you sell and the developers implement it based on the needs of the business.

For example on the build vs hosted service there are many things a developer would not want to build such as WYSIWYG, analytics (figure out what is working, what isn't), ratings (up/down), easy changes (no app store deployment), translation across devices (iOS/android), ticketing (contact form for help). When I had initially thought of similar ideas, Zendesk hadn't moved an inch, but here lately they started getting into mobile support [2] so if anything I find it validation to the market that will just continue to grow. There simply is no reason every developer should build all of that out reinventing the wheel when there can be a service to provide that functionality and focus development resources in other areas.

If you want to chat more, my email is in my profile.

[1]: http://userdeck.com

[2]: https://developer.zendesk.com/embeddables
You cannot write safe code in any Turing complete language? That's a bold assertion that I don't believe is true. Surely you can use formal methods to develop software and maybe even prove it's correctness and security, it's costly in multiple ways but the language of implementation doesn't prevent you from doing this. It is possible to write secure code.

If we replaced everything in C with Haskell, we'd have an entirely different problem. The attack surface wouldn't involve buffer overflows and stack smashing, it would involve various DoS attacks. Those might be easier to address though.
For the larger HN crowd, it is worth calling out Facebook's hypocritical stance.

They've launched a vaguely worded and misleading campaign, abusing their reach to get people's support for Internet.org, phrased in such a way that it is hard to say no to it, see this screenshot: https://twitter.com/prkvs/status/628405660326084608

They profess the need for neutrality in the US, but not in India (or when they do, it is a doublespeak version).

The same goes for Google: http://scroll.in/article/717663/double-standards-facebook-an...
Honest question, then what's the point of innovating, if Google, Facebook, or Twitter can simply copy your idea with an unlimited reach?
It is a reasonable question, which if I understand your comment correctly is "Is having a deeply connected relationship with your current date over rated?"

The less charitable interpretation would be that shallow people are happier because they don't have the capacity understand what they are missing in a 'deep' relationship. I don't think that particular question variant would have much merit, if you are actually happy I think that is sufficient whether or not you met some external definition of depth.
The article isn't about people remotely taking over cars or disabling cars. It's that the anti-theft system has a flaw. That's not nothing, but it doesn't put anyone's safety at risk.
We've started using Redux [1] lately, because we found some flaws in the original Flux architecture [2]. We also started using ImmutableJS together with Redux. Would you care to list any advantages of NuclearJS over Redux?

[1] http://gaearon.github.io/redux

[2] biggest flaw: if an action updates two different stores, and a component depends on both stores, the component will get rendered twice. Even worse, the first time it will get rendered with one store updated and the other one not updated, so possibly in an inconsistent state.
Yes, here some simple examples:

(state, action) => ({...state, loading: true})

(state, {error}) => ({...state, error, loading: false})

(state, {result:{data}}) => ({...state, ...data, loading: false})
And HN would be filled with Microsoft apologists, saying it was better that the babies were sacrificed by Microsoft, rather than a FOSS equivalent.
No one wants games designed by spotty nerds? Get real
If you want the getters functionality in redux, use reselect: https://github.com/faassen/reselect

At this point I really get the impression that redux has "won" now that flummox recommends using redux instead of flummox.

Flux libraries are small and simple enough that it probably won't hurt to use a non-mainstream flux library, but it's probably still best to use the same one everybody else is using.
Looking at this thread, it looks like we run into problems because we jump to solutions quickly, then thoroughly waste our time debating them.

Perhaps we'll have greater success if we can first agree on common ground?

There's a fundamental force at play here that extends far beyond the internet. I'm not entirely sure what it is.

Attention and mind share can be bought. This causes some weird outcomes in the Internet and politics.

It has to do with how we obtain/exchange value in our society - speech, information, material goods, attention, justice, etc. Perhaps how we make people produce value: labour, creation, votes.

Could we get closer to a solution if we spent more time understanding the root cause?
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>(selected for having acquired new wealth, as opposed to old family money that's more or less tied to the land)

Those are exactly the people we want to tax higher.

the nouveau riche generally actually do something to earn money, the trust-fund/inheritance class produces very little benefit but captures vast amounts of wealth.

Also, London has ever increasing real estate costs specifically because of all of the ultra rich foreign investors buying property in London. That seems to run counter to your claim that rich people will flee anywhere with high taxes.

Also to leave the country, you would have to pay an exit tax. You will also have to relinquish your US citizenship.

Those are two costs that i would bet the vast majority of the wealthy would not be willing to pay, no matter what the current tax climate is.
Don't use sockpuppet accounts to upvote your submission. It doesn't work.
People are usually bad understanding counter intuitive notions such as the fact that making security flaws public actually makes consumers more secure, not less.
I think is the natural choice. Their social network "Google+" failed, they are now implementing live streaming for games (after laughing about Twitch[1]) and already offer live hangouts. I'm sure the next step is to use Youtube ala Periscope/Meerkat, maybe with a standalone app. If they want to keep their influencers and Youtube pros they should offer this functionality to them but Facebook is ahead now.

[1]https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/580524413604478976
Since this is an anti-theft system, not a safety system, I can totally see that VW made a rational decision "it's better for the anti-theft system to let a thief steal the car 50 times than for one person to legitimately get locked out of their car."

You can make up for car thefts with dollars.
So what I'm reading out of this is that Chrome OS will soon be able to run a Windows virtual machine locally? If so that's a pretty interesting development from a non-corporate perspective as well
OP here: Hi there. Yes, I agree, I am not sure why the house wasn't built for collecting rainwater. It is something we have considered doing right away when we moved here, but at that moment we couldn't afford the investment. Long term it will be a valuable investment. On average it rains here for 10 days a year or so, but when it rains, it's really coming down. So all of the 200mm or so of rainfall come down within a period of about 2 weeks, usually around May and some times in August. So, the collection tank would have to be really large, 3,000+ gallons, to be useful.

As for the internet, take a look at Satellite as a secondary connection, if you need it. I know Exede has some unlimited plans, but only in some parts of the country, the parts that are exposed to their newer beam. We are still on the old satellite, so we aren't that lucky.
FWIW my honda has a real physical key with an rfid chip. So just duplicating the key won't work unless I get a key with a chip.
We had an SMSSync integration when I worked at FrontlineSMS[1]. It's a gateway, period. Any smarts have to be built into whatever server it interacts with. It has little in common with Myra.

[1] http://www.frontlinesms.com