skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered using police databases or radios to mine incidents?

Calling the police should be your top priority when witnessing a crime, how can you tap in to that mindshare?

How will you deal with critics that say you're actually making the area less safe by redirecting attention to your app instead of the police?

What would incentivize someone to report a crime via your app?

Do you know if notifying everyone in the area of a crime would actually make people safer, or feel safer? I think in cities most people benefit from ignorance of the number of crimes happening around them.
I have a perfectly working color laser printer from HP and they decided not to have drivers that work with Windows 10. Why are drivers still a thing in the Windows world?

Any printer that supports AirPrint (almost any wireless printer) will at least give you a base level of functionality without printer specific drivers required. The only reason that I'm keeping the printer is because it still works with my iOS devices and I'm getting a Mac eventually.
That essay is written from a particular perspective and pretends that it is the clearly right perspective. Whether it's valid to consider pixels to be little squares depends on whether we're talking about display pixels or image sensor pixels and whether we're trying to resample or interpolate photographic data or trying to create data (pixel art, fonts) for a specific display medium. Sometimes there simply isn't an underlying continuous field to be point-sampled from. You'll never devise a good way to render text on an LCD with that article's mindset (not too surprising, since it's from 1995).
From a bar/restaurant manager perspective, I never understood why distributors don't integrate technology. When I managed a large bar/restaurant, ordering $1000s of dollars of liquor/beer each week, I would have to call each order in to my rep's voicemail and leave a message. If he had any questions he would call me back and ask for clarification. In almost every order though there was at least one issue where the wrong liquor was sent, the wrong quantity was sent, etc... Huge time suck for management having to always double check each order as it came in and reorder with risk of running out.

With that said, it would be cool if you could integrate with liquor management systems (i.e. BevSpot or BarMetrix) to somehow automate the entire process. So when they ran their inventory it would automatically create events and reorder the required products.
brb submitting a startup that specializes in handling your sockpuppets properly for situations like this
Mr Money Mustache was a programmer and retired in something near 10 yrs of work. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
From the MSFT's link for Enterprise version:

"At telemetry levels Enhanced and Full, Microsoft uses Linguistic Data Collection info to improve language model features such as autocomplete, spellcheck, suggestions, input pattern recognition, and dictionary. For more info, see the Get to know me setting in the Speech, inking, & typing section of this article and the Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future setting in the General section of this article.
Note

Microsoft doesn't intentionally gather sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, email addresses, or other similarly sensitive information for Linguistic Data Collection. We guard against such events by using technologies to identify and remove sensitive information before linguistic data is sent from the user's device"

Of course, they can't know if anybody is typing the password in the wrong field or at the time they didn't expect.
Startup hopes to make you care about all of your notifications again
I think he was saying that, had anyone suggested 2-3 years ago that you'd be running a natively supported Linux stack in Windows, you'd have been asked to share whatever you're smoking.
Do you have a non-paywalled version?
there is also 'you might become too sick to work, but not sick enough to die tomorrow' which is what makes me more and more worried as I get older and society provides less and less safety nets

To me the 'my sister has 10x the assets' is like saying 'my sister is going to be ok in her retirement years, while I hope I'll be able to keep working for as long as I need to', but maybe I am reading that through the lens of my concerns/fears
that's honestly very creepy
Demo or Educative's editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYvAuFR0r_0
SurveyMonkey Intelligence
$500 for a pair of contacts that only need replacing once a year? I'd buy that even without the camera.
5 things Angular
Apply HN: Jam, every student's personal assistant
We are building a text-based supervised A.I. designed to help French students in their daily lives.

Jam was born last year. It only speaks French and is available via Facebook Messenger, Twitter DMs and SMS. 50.000 people have already texted Jam.

Ask us anything
Yes. I used to frequent a message board that implemented a really dumb profanity filter. It got to the point that its users would greet one another in face to face meetings with "Hecko!"
There's actually a few interesting stories there about how Facebook has been beating out quite a few of these regional networks in recent years. For example, they've unseated Mixi in Japan and Cyworld in South Korea:

http://www.digitalintheround.com/japan-mixi-facebook/

http://www.digitalintheround.com/south-korea-cyworld-faceboo...

There are quite a few interesting stories like that, about how certain regionally popular services seem to be losing popularity compared to their international competitors.
"seems to"
sadly the "closed garden" concept is the trend these days..
What's your constructive result (as opposed to reactive/condemning) of that characterization?

To me, propaganda is just a result of mass media, which itself is a result of the longer trend of advancing of communication technology. It's impossible to oppress someone who is not in your "light cone", or to control actions which are below your limit of resolving.

In the past things weren't as developed, so it was easier to circumvent a model that was less reflective of reality. But going forward, I feel the quest for individual freedom entirely comes down to information architectures.
The title should really be "How we stopped wasting $132k a Year With an IT Infrastructure Audit." The article certainly leaves the impression that a lack of processes, procedures and basic change management left you in a position where you were wasting 132k a year. As I read it the article shows some recognition of that fact but a false dichotomy between innovation, time to market and change control is used to justify not properly addressing the issue. Thus it will most likely strike again but in a more painful manner.
Reposts articles from 20 hours ago (jk).

It's someone who is relatively new to professional programming -- less than four or five years experience.

In my opinion, it takes more than five years to truly know the difference between shit and shinola.

I started in 1989 and try my best to maintain a beginner's mind -- because rigid thinking leads to rust -- and I don't wanna rust.
"This goes through a secret process that eventually gets me connected to the CID (touchscreen) with root privileges."

give me back my 2 mins, please.
It's not an instant thing. They roll it out gradually.
It takes a lot of gall to double down on your mistakes in a situation like that. These two should've been stripped of their license had they survived that stunt.
Great idea. We're planning a wedding now, and the vendor acquisition process is insane. To what extent do you view this as a discovery platform versus a true marketplace? Will it ever go beyond bids?
If your French is not too rusty, feel free to check out hellojam.fr
1) Accounts (bars, restaurants, wedding halls, grocery stores, etc.) are either served by a sales rep or the orders have to be phoned in if you don't have a sales rep. If you have a sales rep, you place your order by calling, texting or emailing.

The problem is that all ordering and product info is then reactive to the rep. You can't login and see prices or products available, you have to reach out to your rep to answer questions.

The other side is that reps are busy and driving around all day, so they often don't respond by order cut off time. Our system helps take away these manual tasks and let hem do more selling.

2) Distributors spend $100k-$1mm each year paying employees to take orders for house accounts. Our system allows them to cut down on this labor cost. It also allows them to reach more accounts as each sales rep might only be able to service so many accounts. If we can automate part of it, they can do more selling to more accounts.
Apply HN: Bandhub – online music collaboration community
Bandhub (http://bandhub.com) is an online music collaboration community.

We provide easy-to-use software for asynchronous, video-based, music collaboration. We make it easy for you to get to know like-minded musicians around your interests, develop relationships with them over time and stay connected on an ongoing basis by regularly making music together and sharing with the overall Bandhub community.

PROBLEM: 99% of the world's 500M people who play an instrument or sing do it recreationally, as a hobby. For people like us, it is very hard to get to socialize meaningfully around music ( forming a band, playing in gigs ). Yet those meaningful social experiences around music are what we aspire to the most. Making it easier to get those experiences is in our opinion the #1 problem in the musical products industry. The internet hasn't done much yet to help solve this problem. You can publish your performance in YouTube or Soundcloud but nobody will pay attention to it ( only the 0.1% of musicians will get attention ). The average recreational musician will be ignored.

INITIAL FOCUS: Our current product is good for the subset of people that are REALLY active in their hobby of playing an instrument/singing. That is people who play/sing for 2hrs every day when they come back from work/school. Bandhub users now spend those 2hrs using Bandhub instead, as the workflow is the same to what they use to do before Bandhub ( i.e., meticulously learning & practicing songs ) but now they get super meaningful social experiences by being part of "collabs" in Bandhub, which are multi-instrument online video-based collaborations.

MARKET: $30B/year spent worldwide in Musical Products ( e.g., guitars ) and Lessons. We believe meaningful social experiences around this hobby are the most valuable experiences people are looking for and whoever succeeds in providing them will capture a big portion of this overall market, and maybe also grow this market 10x.
URL should probably point to article itself, and not blog's homepage.

http://www.su-tesla.space/2016/04/hack-s.html
PHP7 is ok. They rewrote the parser to use a real AST which fixed a lot of the weirdness and inconsistency, threw out a ton of deprecated stuff, and made error situations saner by replacing errors by throwables. I like also that php is gradually getting strict typing as an option. Function signatures are strictly typed now, with class properties getting it soon. Plus, PSR guidelines have made the popular libraries object-oriented, namespaced and consistent. My main complaint with php these days is that it's starting to look too much like java with dollar signs.
Considering a lot of Windows says admin types can't even program in Powershell (IME) I can't imagine a lot of people wanting to learn BASH (and probably Perl, Pyrhon, etc)
This whole thing is a non-story. They moved around some money in the budget and it got mis-reported.

http://gothamist.com/2016/04/06/de_blasio_diggin_tunnels.php...
I am really curious to see how this plays out.

Kudos for the 'be nice' rule - rejections really really hurt, and if they are in public, even more so. Anyone who is willing to put themselves out there like that deserves to be treated with kindness - even if the actual feedback is critical. Snark is very easy.
I wish they would profile users based on the most commonly used features and data segments and load those first, and the rest asynchronously.
Question remains - if this is winner takes all market. If it is - only one company will survive. As a consumer most important thing for me is to get cab as quickly and cheaply as possible maintaining the basic standards of cleanliness, and politeness from service providers. If quality of service is more or less the same - then I'd argue that the platform generating more demand and supply in the market will prevail and take on outsize market share (80%+). if this is true - then only one will prevail.
given recent frustration out of linkedin spamming this would definitely not hurt.. do you have a prototype ?
Hi, another Wildfire co-founder here.

We're initially targetting college campuses, starting with UC Berkeley. In urban college towns, rampant crime exists, and there's already a community around safety. Our primary way to get users on the app is by partnering with student governments and campus police for advertising.

In one month, we've gained nearly 1k active users in Berkeley. Our biggest growth factor is word-of-mouth: whenever users receive Wildfire alerts, they tell their friends, so we average 20 new downloads with each notification sent.
Am I the only one to find that using only the 1,000 most common words actually makes thing harder to understand? The writer ends up having to use convoluted paraphrases to refer to things where a precise, well defined and well understood word exists but it's not part of the top 1,000.
Based on the amount of feedback that I've received with an ageist attitude, I'm starting to wonder if it is even possible for people to criticize the piece without mentioning my age in a condescending tone.

My age has nothing to do with how this article reads. Maybe lack of experience in writing professionally, but not my age. I suggest you give the article another read, but this time try ignoring that innocent two digit number I publicly declared without any second thoughts (which I've deleted now, because I want genuine feedback).

And I'm not going to defend that generalized statement of mine. I don't agree with it fully myself anymore. There's no objective way of concluding which generation is/was the most arrogant and self-obsessed. My current stance is that, for every generation, the youth is always the most arrogant and self-obsessed, and the arrogance goes down as you grow older.

Thanks for the response though :)
Jam is in : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441225 \o/
Interesting idea, and kudos to you for kicking off the discussions to refine the approach - and for the "be nice" rule, which I think is very important here.

A question: What are the situations where you think it will benefit people more to go the open route than applying directly?

One way of thinking about it is

advantages of "Apply HN": getting significant calibration and feedback on an idea that improves it whether or not it is selected, a chance for a partial team to begin discussions with other potential co-founders, and the (small) chance of having an idea selected because of overwhelming support when it wouldn't have been chosen through the normal process

disadvantage: exposing the idea in a very early state to thousands of smart motivated people who are then have the time to come up with better variations on it

Obviously the tradeoffs are different for different teams and ideas ... and there certainly might be some advantages and disadvantages I missed. In any case, I'm curious about who you think might benefit most from this.
There are a number of ways to do this. Native to Keyboard Maestro are:

Prompt For User Input [1] is the easiest method and allows you to build a form fully within the KM's GUI.

Custom HTML Prompt [2] lets you make a full HTML/CSS/JS form. I have never had need of this, but in principle you can leverage any web browser tools such as jQuery and Bootstrap to make a complex form.

Check out the KM forums for examples. KM also allows you to fully integrate AppleScript and shell scripts, so you could do all sorts of other crazy workflows.

[1] https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Prompt_for_User_Inpu...

[2] https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Custom_HTML_Prompt
Yes, I'm 19. And?
bugcrowd.com/tesla
https://www.3scale.net/ comes with a lot of batteries includes: user login, user dashboard, email handling, if you wish even payment. It's ideal if on the engineering side you just want a simple API call (to 3scale) that returns 'yes/no' for a given API key and everything else can be configured and designed by a non-engineer. We got something running in two days. It's easy to outgrow 3scale though. We're moving away from them because we handle millions of requests/day (saving money).

You might want to check out http://apiaxle.com/. The folks at https://mapzen.com/blog/apiaxle/ seem happy. Near the end of the blog post they point to https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/ as well.
Y Combinator flirts with having Hacker News community pick Fellowship companies
Joke aside, there are ways to compute a "readability score" for any block of text. This is useful for document writers that need to target particular grade-levels for their docs (eg driving manual is "8th grade"). https://readability-score.com/
Perfect for editing articles in Simple English Wikipedia:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
thnx .. yes i started thinking what if we reversed the selling process and let sales and recruiter do more work instead of simply spamming a mass message .. just wireframing so far.. we did not know Apply HN will come up :)
I think this is a fantastic idea! The wedding industry is huge, expensive (and getting more and more so), and I've heard horror stories from friends when they picked the wrong vendor.

I'm confused by your use of the words "contest" and "prize". You've got a straightforward auction, why are you not calling it that?

What's the incentive for vendors to come to you, won't this force them to compete on price in a market where price often doesn't matter?

Do you know vendors will agree to take 50% after the wedding? How are these agreements structured today? How will you ensure vendors don't get ripped off?

How are you going to get customers and vendors to use your site?

Edit:

How will you make money?

What if you just act as a marketplace for vendors, handle the payments in full up front, and take a percentage?
I think this statement is very extreme case scenario. I never really saw programming job without freedom to create requirement at least on technical front.
Great thoughts and exactly the problem we are trying to solve.

We actually have our system setup to work with Bevinco, which comes in and takes your inventory in the middle of the night and then generates an inventory report. We have a quick order page that matches that so they can just run down a list (opposed to driving through a catalog, which is our main way).

Our plan is to eventually have inventory be apart of our system so we can have machine learning on par levels, consumption, ordering.
Sorry, I intended to quote your last sentence, applying a confidence interval to a reinforcement learning system, especially with respect to multi-armed bandits / adaptive experiments, but if I have to dig in to some signal processing stuff I am happy to do that.

It seems the conformal prediction link has some relation. I will dig, thanks.
The post said a minimum of two. In other words, in a worst case scenario they are committing to two ideas. For all we know, they might decide to fund 20 in this first experiment.
I don't see anywhere in the article where it mentioned the "hackers" getting free pizza for life. Seems like they found a bug, tested it once, paid for the "free" pizza they received, then reported it.
Unsurprisingly, this was discussed before on HN[0], nearly 2 years ago. It would be interesting if an expert could summarize what has changed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544814
I'd be more inclined to believe that if it weren't for the fact[1] that it continues talking to Microsoft even when explicitly told not to.

I would have sworn there was a Reddit post where someone documented the same behavior on Enterprise SKUs as well, but I'm either mistaken or can't find it.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...
Writing so that children, people for whom English is a second language, and people otherwise unable to comprehend advanced writing, can understand you is not a bad thing.

I'm considering applying this to my product documentation, even though our users are generally well-educated...we can't afford to have docs translated into a dozen languages, but simple English may be readable by enough foreign language speakers to make it worth the effort. English is a tough language; making it easier for new users of the language is great, IMHO.
That's fine, and for those who don't feel so gushy, there's a different thing you can do: simply re-read your comments and edit out anything that isn't nice. You can always set 'delay' in your profile to between 1 and 10 minutes to give yourself some editing time. Mine is 3.
Mechanical calculator tries to divide by zero
Six Best Practices to Better Agile Implementation
I took the code from the blog post, set the parallelism to one and measured how many events the data generator is pushing into the CEP pattern matcher of Flink.

My CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4910MQ CPU @ 2.90GHz
Thoughput on one core ~ 650k events / second.
Code: https://github.com/rmetzger/cep-monitoring/tree/throughput
This is great!

However, "In conventional RethinkDB deployments, users typically run their application server within the same closed network as their database servers. In that specific kind of environment, where the database isn’t exposed to the public internet, there’s typically little need for encryption."

I would push for more companies to actually encourage encryption locally too. Perimeter security is no longer sufficient.

EDIT: Adding Google BeyondCorp reference: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/06/googles_beyondcorp_s...
How wages are determined
it will be fun to see how linkedin would be built under YC leadership too
So kiddie porn is just the new "drugs" is the new "he's a secret communist" is the new "he's a secret loyalist" is the new "she's a witch in league with satan". Par for the course.

I think American exceptionalism gets in our way here. Instead of asking "how could this happen in the land of the free?", the real question is "You gave some people limitless power and no oversight!? What the hell did you expect? This is what always happens when you do that!"
Developers want machines they can develop from. Windows will be a choice for this again, at least as much as OS X is.
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have comment collapse, like Reddit?
I feel like there has to be a good reason. Because scrolling through long threads to get to a different line of thought is not very friendly.
I would prefer an anonymous employer/recruiter agent and an anonymous job seeker agent. The job seeker agent contains certain well defined constraints such as area=New York salary > 100k USD skillset=Java industry IN('medical','biotech') status=active

then the employer agents can search for active seekers or passive seekers and present some detailed information about the position. If the seeker is interested, they make contact, if not the employer agent moves on unless told to check back.
You should make this available for trial. No way I'm paying $449 just to try it.

I set it up with the developer account, but when I try to connect the integration, it says it's not available for the developer plan. I was like "ok, fine, i'll pay 50 bucks to try it" but then it says salesforce is only available on the Growth plan, which is $449.

Closed the tab, and moved on with my life.
This is a funny comment, but it's also better advice than it might seem, for reasons Jon Birger describes in Date-onomics: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/19/briefly-noted-date-onomics...