skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey everyone! Happy to answer any questions about the product or the tech behind it: React + RethinkDB + Node.js.

This is our second startup. In 2009, we founded AgileZen, which was one of the first kanban project management apps. (Think Trello before Trello.) Our startup was acquired by Rally Software in 2010, and in the years that followed we were frustrated by the lack of real solutions for effectively managing work. So, we decided to apply what we learned to a new product, which became TaskTorch.

Let us know what you think. Good or bad, we'd love your feedback!
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It definitely helps, but if you're trying to keep up with the latest security, you'd be susceptible to Logjam (due to DHE-supporting ciphers in the default TLS 1.2 list).

There's the Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator which helps with the madness, but they still aren't keeping up with the latest recommendations.
Or, instead of assuming malice on the part of anyone who dares to disagree with you, you could recognize that people like it because it's clever and deeply true in a way that maybe you aren't able to see.
I agree. I can't think of a better or more reliable way to place one object at/near another. If they both have GPS units, the hard part should be steering the parachuting drop not knowing where to steer to, right?
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Ad fraud to cost brands $7.2bn this year
API acceleration as one of the keys to Web performance
Given Mac has been 64-bit for a long time now, why would Apple support 32-bit?

I'm curious about your use-case, actually. Presumably you're not targeting non-64-bit Macs. So are you using 32-bit for better memory use? In that case, maybe Apple should introduce a 32-bit-pointer-on-x64 ABI, like Linux's X32.
1) GPS is a weak signal and can be jammed or spoofed.

2) Your satellite imagery might not be accurately aligned to the coordinated system. If you want to land on a little flat spot, then doing it visually will work even with misaligned imagery.
Incredibly interesting chart which I hadn't seen, thanks. I don't know if I wholeheartedly agree, but I very clearly see your point.
My guess is the military is using image recognition in ADDITION to gps like you suggest. But I too don't see how that is going to help with the wind. Also I would assume you would drop the package several miles behind the front lines to avoid that sort of problem (Assuming the allied forces are not surrounded). Maybe they are referring to placing the camera's directly on the payload but I still don't see why that would be better then gps.
Show HN: My first offline web app (interactive sheet music and audio and video)
previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930397
Why Managers Underutilize Time Tracking Software and How to Fix This
Can a Computer Write a Hit Musical?
Psychological pain is as bad as physical.

I was 'merely asked for a beer' once by a big hairy guy who had stalked me in a public swimming area. And I'm a straight male. I can tell you, sexual harassment is kinda like porn - you know what it is when you feel it.
Queuing theory is, like statisical thinking, is a topic where I feel like I understand what will happen but I know that my intuitions are wrong.

Which is why everything always takes longer than I think it should.
Queuing theory is, like statisical thinking, is a topic where I feel like I understand what will happen but I know that my intuitions are wrong.
> "we do just fine with java"

Yeah, except they write 2-5 times more code in Java, than they would in Kotlin. I think it's unprofessional to reject a new language, that will make code smaller and easier to understand, just because somebody is afraid to step out of his comfort zone for a moment, and not because of some potential real problems.

I think you can justify anything with that stupid line of thinking: "I don't use for-loops, because a while-loop can do the same, and it's too hard for me to learn it."
Sounds the same to me. Learning Kotlin is a must for any Android developer, unless he really likes to give handjobs to the Java compiler: "Oh, let my type the name of the type twice, even if it's quite long for clarity and you know it already from the right hand of the assignment. You want me to write 23 lines of boilerplate in a separate file for a POJO with 2 fields? Oh, you dirty boy!"
Am I the only one that finds it odd after reading an article about someone making $11/hr in factory losing their job, the top-voted comment (and a good number of the replies) is one lamenting their $150k salary?
Any questions on this I'm happy to answer. The link to the examples repo is at the end of the post, or here for convenience:

https://github.com/luxpir/plaintext-productivity

Summary: A to-do list and calendar template for low-resource, quick management of work and personal life. Also included for good measure are a .vimrc and .muttrc file to borrow from.
Ha ha yes. I worked for a healthcare startup and for a while the email to webmaster@ went to my inbox. We sold software to large provider organizations and didn't deal with patients at all. This was very clear on our web site. Yet I routinely received emails from random people seeking medical advice: heart disease, indigestion, headaches, diabetes, etc. It was kind of shocking the level of private personal details some of them would include. I just sent back a polite form letter suggesting they contact a physician.
I meant that as in 'enough to get you out of wack', not the other way around. For proper ordering you'd need better than microsecond resolution so if you're off by a few microseconds you might as well use rand().
1. Cardan grille was invented in 1550. Voynish manuscript is almost 100 year older by carbon dating

3. Why do you give hoax higher prior probability?

EDIT: I was wrong about the possible distributions so there's no point 2.
> far less data

/author of API Blueprint here/ I would not say this is the case. API Blueprint focuses on different data for various reasons (design-first, documentation-orinented). In order to bring the Swagger support we had to introduce some extension in the format. We are, however, trying to unify the tooling under the hood of the refract project (https://github.com/refractproject/refract-spec/blob/master/n...) through (de)serialization plugins for the Fury.js library (https://github.com/apiaryio/fury.js)
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I would replace the text with screenshots (or simply add more images) when you click on features. It hasn't convinced me to sign up yet.

Ask yourself, what do you love about what you built? and work on passing that message along, either through screenshots, short text, 'GIF' like video of you doing it, or an actual video (although it's tricker to do)
We use it (well, a derivative of it) to great success. The trend monitoring has proven invaluable at early detection of problems, at a level where pure thresholds would produce much more noise than signal.
>The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.

-John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went
VC Firm Ventech Expands into Scandinavia with the Help of Tero Mennander
That's not her problem. She's her own worst enemy.

> help me salvage my original Instagram photos, pre-hacked, despite Instagram serving as my Photography portfolio and my career is a Photographer.
I recently released an open source note taking application called gthnk (http://gthnk.com). It's based around markdown-formatted text files, in part because I do not want to commit my thoughts to a proprietary format that may not be readable in a decade or a century.
Improved Location Caching with Quadtrees
Seeing Circles, Sines and Signals: A Compact Primer on Digital Signal Processing
Annoying anecdote: I was thrilled when I installed the iPhone remote app but I couldn't sign in to Netflix. It said my password was wrong. But it works when I sign in to the web page ... After a little searching I find the solution: Enter your password with the AppleTV remote. Yes, it works. Why it fails on the iPhone app is a mystery to me.
Also Child seats. When you need them using a different car or taxi is a huge pain
"Lead the way", "define the future"

Lot of assumptions given:

"Ground floor"
And better yet than asking yourself, is now, as apparently you have lots of feedback here and new users, ask your users! (what you love might be different from what your users love).

Cheers
$x never seems like a lot of money after you spend it.
Ah.. I think you might be onto something. An image recognition approach probably does mitigate gps spoofing and jamming attacks. And perhaps they are thinking about china's anti satellite missiles that they tested a few years back.
Verizon just launched FreeBee, its plan for ‘sponsored data’
NRL Tests Cooperative Soaring Concept for Sustained Flight of UAV Sailplanes
> I think the difference here is that C# (and the .NET platform) was never meant to completely replace C/C++ Win32 development

Oh no, it was meant to replace them. Win32 was going to be deprecated, all new stuff would be on native .NET APIs, there'd be a Windows Presentation Foundation and a Windows Filesystem and it'd all be great.

The thing is that Longhorn fell apart, and with it the dream of replacing Win32 died forever.

Now we have WinRT, but unlike the plans for Longhorn, WinRT actually sits on top of Win32.
Show HN: Singapore train system map that works offline with Service Worker
The damaging thing most of these websites can do is leak personal information. Sometimes just annoying, but large scale password breaches can escalate to secondary problems for the public.

A 4 year CS degree does not necessarily encapsulate security training as it's usually an elective, but it at least gives the foundational understanding of algorithms to understand why something is secure vs insecure.
The Nerd Cat #43: “Are the Top Apps Using Swift?” and More
Thank you for saying this. It's too sad how far wide spread this incorrect idea is.
Running 50km after 82h of fasting
In Lisps, this:

(- 1)

and this:

(-1)

Are completely different things (the latter is actually an error). Also in LiveScript

ls> (- 2)
[Function]
ls> (-2)
-2

Also in Smalltalk, this:

-3. "=> -1"
- 3. "=> Error!!!"

That's off the top of my head, I'm sure there are many other languages with this characteristic. Why would that be a problem? It's just a single (or a couple) parse rules to remember (but you get other benefits from it).
That was my problem with Riemann. I love its core but I really want something built on top of it. Basically a Jenkins of monitoring (since clojure is JVM). I contemplated building it (ie taking Jenkins plugin system as inspiration) but it was just way to much work.
The problem with configs (and this is with my operations hat on), is that they are rarely as well secured (or reviewed) as regular code, so code based configuration files pose a significant privilege escalation threat on production servers.

With my programmer's hat on, they're also harder to populate programmatically, so I have a hard time justifying their use.
> Anyway. When you have a conversation with an idiot, nobody watching can tell which one of you is the idiot.

A friend of mine who works as a college professor has a fun approach to deal with the kinds of random cranks who contact him out of the blue seeking someone to validate their wild Time-Cube-style theories and "research": he responds to each one by providing an introduction to the previous one. Apparently, he received followups from some of them afterward saying how much they appreciated the introduction and how much it helped them.
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I think that illustrates, emphasizes even, how unbalanced the society is. You feel poor at $15k, $50k, $100k and even the dual income families of $250k feel on a razors edge.
I can't count how many mails I got via php.net webmaster and security mails (yeah, I admit my involvement there ...) from people who locked them out from some website with a "powered by php"-button and asked me for a password reset.
The picture of the producer of a screw in a machine often seemed to work.
Why ideas why Microsoft doesn't officially support OneNote plugin development? I was trying to put something together the other day to bulk insert pages and it took hours just to piece together a working VS project that was compatible with OneNote 2013.
Spotify has a messaging system, so it might be the same reason as with the other messaging systems. To send spam or scam.
And Swagger does the same?
"The government is always the most successful group of gangsters"
I think it illustrates very little about society, but quite a bit about human nature.
Considering it is pretty much the gold standard for crypto, how did you enhance it?
A good relationship includes a huge amount of trust, including that your assistant understands your priorities and can do some decisions autonomously. That's what you get from paying a full-time assistant instead of a simple AI.
The author, some of the comments here and especially the author of the Gizmodo article seem to lament the fact that passwords aren't stronger. I have no idea about whether or not that is justified, but a list of the most common passwords is in no way reflective of average password strengths. A good password is probably unique in the world so by definition the only passwords on this list are those that are trivially easy to come up with. A more interesting statistic, I think, is what percentage of the world's passwords is '123456'.
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They're not complaining about their salary, they're complaining about the distance they feel from family members because of a gap in economic situation.
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> For stream processing engines, configuration will be code. Unfortunate, but unavoidable.

I honestly don't think it's unavoidable, so long as you separate the configuration (i.e. hosts, thresholds, outputs, etc) from your processing logic. Of course, this requires additional development work from within the "configuration" file.
There are some FF-related pull requests on GitHub, but it seems that guy hasn't signed the contributor agreement. Maybe we'll get an FF-version soon.
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Swagger and API Blueprint are two different formats to describe web APIs. Until now Apiary and its tools supported only the API Blueprint. This has changed today.
I don't think that is a very generous reading of the OP. To me they commented in passing that their salary isn't enough to buy a house, but they were mostly lamenting their sister's situation, not their own.
Here is the news release from Verizon: https://www.verizon.com/about/news/introducing-freebee-data-...

The summary:

* companies can pay VZW to zero-rate their data on two models

* per-click: users will see "FreeBee" icon next to content that is per-click sponsored, so that they know clicking through to the data won't count against their data cap.

* per-gig data: blanket zero-rated data

The bad news is, unlike T-Mobile, companies HAVE TO PAY Verizon if they want their data zero-rated. Because Verizon is in such a big market position, this basically means in order for your company to stay competitive among VZW customers, you have to cut Verizon a huge check.

If people were reserved about calling what Tmo did a NN-violation, I'd like to see what they say about Verizon.

Here is Verizon's product page for FreeBee: http://freebee.verizonwireless.com/business/freebeedata/prod...
It seems like having a small tool to turn yaml files into basic clojure code for easy rulesets would be an easy extension. It might encourage Bad behavior and of course it couldn't do everything ... just an idea.
I used to think exactly that!

After getting used to the general structure (Books, Pages, sections), and ignoring most tools, it grew on me.
Bristol-based Brightpearl raises $11M to accelerate growth in US
That is true - all voice related interfaces are best exemplified with travel. STT for example is best when you're alone and can't use your hands aka driving. TTS is best for the same set of situations, so listening to articles on the train or getting directions read back.

In general, TTS is a better interface than STT, both are (in my very, very humble opinion) bad interfaces.
The layoffs were unfortunate, but it seems that many of them eventually got hired by Cloud Imperium, the Star Citizen developers. They have effectively hired some of the people who made their third-party engine!
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Pennsylvania State's tests centered on a suite of software which uses sensor and other data to calculate where thermals should be, allowing their UAV testbed to continue flying, possibly indefinitely.

It feels like there's a ton of commercial applications for pseudo-"geostatic" aerial network nodes. Though, I'm not sure how we square those benefits against the risks of the military-industrial complex advancing its ubiquitous surveillance capabilities.
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How do you handle Screenshots?

I never thought it was important. Now I'm screenshotting a lot.
Aspose have a library to allow you to do manipulate OneNote files - I haven't used it but I've used their Excel equivalent which is superb:

http://www.aspose.com/.net/onenote-component.aspx
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For note taking during meetings where people draw a lot on whiteboards, I once tried to set up a workflow that would let me take a picture from my Android phone, in one click (with a link on the home screen), and would then automatically send that picture to my laptop and put it into OneNote. Preferably through bluetooth so that I don't need an internet connection. I couldn't even get the first part to work, despite spending half a day messing around with Tasker and Pushbullet. That would be a killer feature for me.
The thing I lack in GMail (or other mail clients / services for that matter): the ability to rename conversations, as well as split/fork them according to my wishes.

Anyone know of an alternative that does this?
My streets are clean enough. I see a doctor quickly enough in terms of the problems I have. I wouldn't pay for improvements in either.

Many people simply don't have the skills or ability to contribute real value to the modern economy. 50 years ago simple physical labour was a valuable economic contribution and remunerated accordingly; today there's a constantly shrinking pool of minimum-wage jobs.
Haha! This was awesome!
There's no code, it's only a collection of themes based on a "standard" template.

The CoffeeScript code you see is for the bookmarklet used on the playground. It is old code, coded in a rush, most for proof-of-concept. I'm slowly rethinking this playground and theme development stuff, so this is going to be replaced.
I was curious about that, and that seems a fair reason, but it doesn't show much interest in client-side encryption if it has been rejected without favoring some new proposal.
Japanese Consumption: Do people in Japan spend more money now than before?
Stop making the same-but-different sweeping generalizations! You cannot discredit one hypothesis by changing the Boolean and calling it a proof.

While this child labor could be performed by abducted children, it's also possible that it's performed willingly by children to pay for their school uniforms or supplies, rather than drop out of school. [0].pdf discusses this sort of thing.

[0]: http://www.oeko.de/oekodoc/1294/2011-419-en.pdf (PDF link)
Cool - maybe this can become a monthly recap of posted books / (links)?
Not just that, but I worry about IOMMU bugs. A safe driver would help mitigate those.
"I wouldn't want that medical bootcamp 'doctor' to treat me, and I don't want a coding bootcamp 'developer' to be responsible for handling my medical data."

The medical example's a good one - a cursory google search [1] turns up a table that shows the various types medical professionals you might encounter if you, say, break your arm. Perhaps programming needs something similar? We're already segmented in some fuzzy way between "Software Engineering," "Software Architect," and "Software Developer."

[1] http://www.thepalife.com/physician-assistant-vs-nurse-practi...
New Relic for code quality?
I'm looking for alternatives to New Relic that include more/better tools for incident response and logging and will still allow us to monitor performance. We've got a large legacy project full of holes and we go down the rabbit hole with xdebug about twice a week with critical fixes currently. I'd like to get ahead of the curve and start finding issues before they bring down our production server. The client is hesitant to spend a lot of time/money on automated testing and our QA team is pretty taxed with testing current development and deployments. Are there any good out of the box solutions/affordable services (on par with New Relic)?
Monitoring request - dynamic configuration. Using Nagios requires configuration file changes and service reload
Would prefer dynamic, on the fly configuration. Even better, configuration that can be adjusted externally, possibly from a web API endpoint. Better still, configuration that IS external, where the monitoring service queries an external service every X minutes to determine what to monitor.

Performant - In the realm of 6 oid monitoring of 50,000+ devices in 5 minute intervals
https://gmelius.com/pricing/

Presumably the free tier is for one account?

> Number of Accounts: --

makes it seem like "None", but then, why would you give "Best Effort" email support or any at all if I don't have an account :)

Would suggest "1" is clearer.

There's also a couple of sections with hashmarks but no "Coming soon/Q1/etc." - presumably they follow on from the last section, but it's not immediately obvious what the hashing even means.

It also seems that you _do_ support Inbox by Gmail [1] - but I had to Google this, after nearly dismissing Gmelius because it makes no mention of Inbox on the site.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gmelius-for-inbox-...
You can only alert in that case if the data starts, and there's no transient issues preventing your monitoring working around the time it stops.

Alerting based on state changes is fragile, it's better to compare against what you expect to see.
That was the city manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma.
Great links! Also be sure to get in touch with us if you get stuck. We're usually pretty active on IRC [1] and the Nim Forum [2], but feel free to also ask questions on Twitter [3], StackOverflow [4] or Reddit [5].

1 - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=nim

2 - http://forum.nim-lang.org/

3 - http://twitter.com/nim_lang

4 - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nim

5 - http://reddit.com/r/nim
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Setting up HTTP/2
Prime number with 22M digits is the biggest ever found