skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone on the talk page brought up the same point. "The only discernible connection is that both had In-Q-Tel as an early investor, as did numerous other companies (none of which are listed as related, nor should be they be)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Recorded_Future
> Hopefully you're building up credit some other way.

Literally any installment credit will be better for credit-building than the vast majority of revolving credit individuals have access to.

CCs are far superior to debit cards in almost every way. If you don't possess self-control, maybe that sentence doesn't hold true. There are a number of disadvantages to using a debit card where a credit card can be used instead.
Also interested to see what projects use this as a core "micro framework" service or with an SOA architecture. Seems like good flexibility between framework power and lightweight.
> Provides multi-party authentication, registration and signaling, which can orchestrate up to 4-way calling using peer to peer mesh topology, across any combination of supported devices. Calls can be video or voice only.

Peer to peer mesh topology? Anyone know of further reading on this?
Is there a chat system that leverages keybase.io?
They could be intercepting the traffic anywhere between the author's network and Facebook though, not necessarily with any complicity on the part Facebook.
Very excited to formally launch my 3rd startup. Formally being the key. We've been working hard for the last 20 months under the radar and are very grateful to our beta partners. We know many of you will see the same benefit we all see in a solution like this!
Could they call it end-to-end if the ends are the devices and the server (never cleartext, but they have the key)? Or, in combination with what is available through FB, is the metadata telling enough?
Yep, it's called Panspermia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
Actually, there's a lot of movement to move the stewardship of node.js away from Joyent and into a foundation. Not being the stewards going forward, it may make less sense for them to acquire npm, especially as it's not clear how much revenue they'll be able to generate.
How about Less People. Most of the worlds problems would be reduced with fewer people. This is only a partial solution if you think about it.
A quarter of part-time college faculty receive public assistance
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965048 this guy uses a screen reader and recently got hired by MS. I hope you can achieve your goals!
The sourcing for that Wikipedia citation seems very thin: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5...

It's hardly implausible, but is there any better, clearer source of this assertion?
On the contrary, I think it's far too pessimistic. Expecting that the technological and scientific progress would stop where we started using fossil fuels is ridiculous. The changes started much sooner in the renaissance, with printing press, scientific method and calculus.

The printing press made spreading information much cheaper than it used to be. The scientific method allowed systematic gathering new knowledge instead of relying on traditions. Calculus allowed precise calculations of things that could be only estimated previously.

Iron, steel, bricks, mortar, cement and glass all predate widespread use of fossil fuels by millenia. Chemicals and plastics are made from oil because it's cheaper that way. The main chemical produced from oil is ethylene, which could be easily made from alcohol. (The only reason why drinking alcohol isn't made from oil as well is because it's illegal.) Nitrogen can be fixed with bacteria.

Fossil fuels helped in many ways, but in others lead us astray, with lots of effort spent on inferior dead end technologies only because fossil fuels made them cheaper. Of course you could power combustion engines with wood gas, but why would you develop them in the first place? Many people assume that combustion engines are used because they are superior to other technologies, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

Combustion engines are a poor choice for powering vehicles in almost every way imaginable. They work well only in a narrow range of speeds, have low torque, are relatively large for the power they produce, can't start on their own... The only reason why they won over electric motors is that the fuel used to be incredibly cheap and easily transported. Almost all progress was about finding workarounds for their inherent drawbacks. You could remove the whole drivetrain and stick electric motors directly to the wheels and you would have a better car than the best combustion engine car. There is a reason why electric cars are not allowed in races.

Almost everything is made of plastics because it's cheaper that way, even where a slightly more expensive alternative would last basically forever. Agriculture started relying on easily available pesticides instead of developing resistant strains or practices that prevent the evolution and spread of pathogens. Many plant diseases adapted specifically to the few commercialy grown variants, so that inordinate amounts of pesticides are needed to keep the plants no more healthy than they used to be without pesticides. And as the plum pox shows, diseases may be even beneficial in some ways. The few widely grown strains affected by it were replaced by a wide variety of different plums.

The industrial revolution probably wouldn't be that different, only with steam and combustion engines skipped and starting straight with electricity.
"up to 4-way calling using peer to peer mesh topology" sounds like fancy names for regular WebRTC connections.
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Just imagine all the tax dollars wasted ruining this guy's business.
It's surprising any apps get made really.
While the numbers are only valid for this moment in time, its possible to get a list of laptops from a price comparison web service and do average on it.

Doing a very hasty lookup (the site I use got diagrams that represent number of products with each drive size), cheap <1000$ laptops got in average 600G and 1000$ and up got an of average 800G or 1T if you include SSD's.
I can't speak with any real authority here but... WebRTC requires the two end points of the connection swap information for networking and things like what codecs they support. I don't believe the MediaStreams between a->b and a->c would have anything to do with each other. They only share a common VideoSource. That would lead me to believe that it would try to encode two different ways if that was the only option. More than likely you'd probably have the vendor select a preferred single codec instead of doing things differently for each user, though that would be pretty neat if it wasn't too resource intensive.
>> It takes more energy to send something to the moon than to send it escaping the earth.

Sure, but far less than de-orbiting into the sun. Use the rocket to get to the moon-based rail gun where there is no atmosphere.
Thanks for this.

Is it irony that sending a full-pixel render of markup is the opposite of the HTML idea? :p
Except that the April data is out now, and it dropped to 14, so 'about to sneak into the top 10' seems a bit premature, in hindsight.
Your bcrypt complaint is pretty petty. They aren't storing the hash on disk at all, and the chat rooms are only temporary.

I do have privacy concerns about this and agree they can eavesdrop if they wish. Increasing the bcrypt rounds from 5 to 15 would in no way help with any of that.
In my company we had been using Git links in our package.json files to point to private dependencies hosted on our local GitLab instance. Recently, we setup an npm-compatible private repository that allows us to publish private packages as well as cache public ones.

It's been awesome to finally get back to using semver to manage all our dependencies. Our build server automatically publishes to our private repo on a successful build.

I think that a lot of companies will find this service extremely helpful and a lot cheaper than having an employee spend the time to try to set up a private repository locally.
This is true, but I'm not sure if the study went into male vs female (and I'm not up for paying the $40 to find out). Either way, though, my point about the male-dominated force was that there's less gender diversity, which does seem to correlate with the divorce incidence rate.
People within the software industry have a great advantage, in that they use their skills to both solve business problems and automate the solutions. Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the software team is a business problem.

There are some common elements to that problem that encourage the re-use of certain solutions--source control, for instance. The only mandate that needs to descend upon the team from above is to examine and improve your own processes.

There is only one other profession of which I am aware that can, given the opportunity, make every tool that is required for the job. That is the blacksmith. If a blacksmith discovers that a certain specialty tool would be useful for a routine task, he could either modify an existing tool or make the new one from scratch. No sane customer would barge in and demand that he use the "wrong" tool for the job. You might just find that red-hot tongs are the wrong tool for proctology.

But that happens to software professionals all the time. And that's where the weaponized idiot comes in. Allowing the customer to tell the skilled worker which tools to use sets up the situation where you could be performing surgery with a grapefruit spoon, while wearing oven mitts, or knocking down a brick wall with a rubber mallet and a hamburger spatula from an outdoor grill set. The unbelievable outcome is that sometimes that task still gets done.

A development process is a tool that software professionals use to do their jobs. If management needs another tool to help them do their jobs, those software professionals would be all too happy to make one. But let's not try to weld those two different tools together and call it a supertool. Agile is one of those welded-together things now, and the different parts might not work well together in your shop.

If your team cannot work without such a process, it may be because the business has neglected to hire a workable mix of masters, journeymen, and apprentices. Too many masters, and they may come into conflict. Too many apprentices, and they may struggle for direction. Too many journeymen, and they will leave to be masters elsewhere.

The only development methodology you really need is to make sure that every team has at least one master on it, and to let them pick their own tools and apprentices. If they can't get the work done with that level of autonomy, fire them and hire someone else. That's not a problem you can fix by going Agile.
As a developer, I hope for a replacement for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. A solid, fast, safe framework collection for both iOS and OS X based on Swift. It sounds like "Core OS" could be just that.

While Apple did a remarkable job by making all the Cocoa stuff available in Swift, a lot of Swift's strength only shines when used with frameworks that are built for it.
Customer Happiness Space :)
Especially when your battery requires a power adapter to stay on three years down the line.
There's some neat ideas in here I hadn't considered before. Thanks.
A space about customer happiness where one can learn from and contribute to everything related to customer happiness, service and support.
Ok, how large is an average HD space on a server? Are we assuming servers have an average of 750GB - 1.5TB? That is not correct either. I'm not being dense, both servers and desktops have WILDLY different HD sizes.
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Before Apple shows that this issue is resolved: www.staingate.org, any new model is just a waste of money for me.
Are you saying that this is the same speed as an iPad air?
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uh, money?
I did it, it cost CND$2.5k in lawyer fees, and I needed a stack of reference letters and proof that I had 7 years experience in my field to show degree equivalency. I applied as a management consultant for IT hardware/software dev. I was able to renew on that basis as well. Good documentation, a truthful story, and a good lawyer. Yes you can but you need a matching job offer from the US and evidence that you aren't displacing a US citizen for the job. Sounds rough but it was actually pretty easy for me.

I don't have a degree or a diploma.
If you want to go as a developer you need a degree at least the equivalent of a US bachelor degree.

If you are going to start a masters for this specific reason I would strongly recommend you get confirmation that the degree you're going for qualifies.

You'll also need a US company to sponsor your visa application.
Have you heard of Amsterdam's red light district? It is a place where you can buy all sorts of narcotics, see prostitutes, and more!

I am assuming that is what they're referring to. That is their culture. How dare you be so politically incorrect, do you have no notion of cultural relativism?
I do this in my cookingspace.com web app: I use the statistics from about 100K recipes to know which ingredients tend to be most often used together, and I use these relationships to suggest extra ingredients for recipes.
That was just a bit of comedy at the end. I don't actually think that agricultural engineers are likely to have a desk in the middle of a corn field. :-)
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> everyone sat/stood in long lines using various devices and no one talked anymore

This is my experience with most conferences now unfortunately. Even when I try to talk to people who are waiting in line they will talk a little and then go right back into their phones.
Interesting. I hadn't realized that WebRTC supported more than two clients talking to each other. My Google-fu is failing me, do you know where I can read up on how the topology of 4 connected callers is orchestrated without a central hub (i.e. how Hangouts does it)?

edit: https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/one-to-many-video-broadcas...
Transcoding is expensive, but with VP8, depending on the codec parameters, you can 'strip down' the stream for less-performant clients e.g. phones, while sending the full-fidelity version to other clients. Without decoding, just by dropping certain classes of packets. There is a loss of resolution of course. So anyway that's an option.
Although it's great to see Twilio branching out into this space, with their recent product releases they do seem to be losing focus on their original Twilio Voice product. Compared to other prodividers their prices really aren't conpetitive, but Twiml is so much more flexible and easier to use than VoiceXML. What to do? :/
Epicenter of change? HFS+ has been the epicenter of unintentional change, right?
Finally they'll start rolling out a next-generation file system: block level checksumming, snapshots, copy-on-write, ...

HFS+ should just go away and die...
That very first picture looks like an iPad with a keyboard attached. I wonder if they'll ever put the logic board in the screen housing and make the bottom piece all battery.
i had this happen on a macbook i used some weird cleaning agent on the screen with; this was maybe 3 or 4 macbook's ago -- since then i'm really picky about what i use to clean the screen, and i haven't had the problem.

obviously it's not definitive, but i suspect cleaning products may be to blame, or blame in a large number of cases.

edit: knock on wood.
>All it needed to do is focus earlier on on ARM portability for its Mac apps.

Just like Microsoft did with Windows RT?
Anyone know how this compares with icecomm? (http://icecomm.io/)

I was quite impressed with how easy it was to set up icecomm .. are twilio upping the ante here in any way that I should know about?
One word: fire.
Isn't the entire internet made by the army or sth? Thats why in my terrorist group, we use pigeons.
Because these same people pay them money. If you're a producer, your first and foremost care is your consumer.

If the great majority of people cannot afford to buy what your machines produce, your market is very narrow. If every producer's market is narrow, there's not enough wealth on it, and they are suddenly poor, too.

This is why most producers, especially huge corporations, go to great lengths to lower prices for another few cents.
This happened to me before with someone I worked with. Saw some weird hits from California, the next day tons of stuff from Russia, china, eastern European counties I have never heard of before..

Now I just don't trust giving private info over such chats.
Did you see the other thread that made the HN front page shortly after this one? It was regarding "deprecating" plain text HTTP traffic. It seems some readers believe there is a "requirement" to involve third parties where SSL-"secured" websites are concerned.
I would say it is a very ambitios vision. But since I see that the team has some of the former Skype engineers onboard, then I believe it might grow into something amazing. Will give a try.
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Something that we all knew is there, but now they don't even hide.
I'd love to see tech to power something like a raspberry pi 2b + eink + light wifi using kinetic energy (walk, handcrank,...).
"In 2014, semiconductor production facilities made some 250 billion billion (250 x 10^18) transistors. This was, literally, production on an astronomical scale. Every second of that year, on average, 8 trillion transistors were produced."

Mind boggling
Here at Sococo (I work there) we support 20+ clients per meeting. Audio, video, doc sharing, rich presence info, always-on but no bandwidth burden when you're not meeting. Free to try!

We use it ourselves for our Agile process, doing ad-hoc meetings all day in various bullpens; Scrum each morning with 20+ participants; all-hands meetings once a week with a shared presentation. And all day I can see who is meeting with whom in my group. Its really pretty performant.
Yes this is what Apple says. The fact is that all screens have serious structured patterns imprinted from the keys - independent on the cleaning method.
It looks like the keyboard is terrible, which rules out programming for me.
That was my first thought on reading the business plan: it sounds like the "nexus" tools used with Maven.

I suppose if you are not using Maven, though, a custom tool integrated with the Node toolchain would be more comfortable.
Rob from Twilio here - confirming this is an accurate description. Each peer in the conversation has a connection to every other peer.
So its going to yell at me every day because I have reached the free tier backup limit?
I'm fearful of where this monetization is going. Part of what I like about npm is that everything is free, from the dinky little packages that do one thing really well, to the monumental ones that provide a host of functionality.

I would hate if NPM went the way of wordpress plugins, where every stupid little plugin costs $5 to access.
When you say picky what do you use? Shouldn't you just use water?
One of our DevOps guys setup Nexus to serve npm packages. It both allows for the publishing of private repos (meaning you get semantic versioning support unlike git links) and caching of public repos from npm. It works extremely well.
I like to ask myself whether I would personally use this service/product if someone else released it? I started asking this after coming up with a number of ideas I thought were great only to eventually find a company already doing it and then realizing I didn't even want to be a customer. Now I only entertain ideas that I am positive I would pay to use if they existed. That way I can at least guarantee that I'm working on something I see the value in.
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How about their own web page?

> We identify, adapt, and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and broader U.S. Intelligence Community.

https://www.iqt.org/
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The truth is that this means layoffs and a new wave of unemployment, for the benefit of the corporate efficiency though machines highly intelligent.

Disagree slightly. I don't think it would look like "We are bringing in the TRX-1000 to do your job." Rather it will be along the lines of "Corpocom is going out of business because they can't compete in quality or price compared to Mechacom."

Small but key distinction in my mind.
Whenever there is a thread about Apple development someone pipes up and says that HFS+ is horrible. Can you explain why it's so problematic? I never once thought to myself that the filesystem needed an update. Ok maybe the .DStore files piss me off but I'm not even sure a filesystem change could change that.
Moore's law always works. So if you don't need to buy one now, the next gen is might be the better choice.
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IIRC, PGP is not good for instant messaging.
I liked the Windows performance page. Very useful. I'd love a Windows battery life page.

Macs running OS X get very solid battery life (8-12 hrs). Running Parallels they get "aright" battery life. Running bootcamp with any version of Windows tanks them into the ground (2-3 hrs) due to Apple's poorly optimised Windows drivers and bugs (e.g. running the cooling fan at max constantly).

Microsoft has done a lot to improve Windows' battery consumption (with the Surface Pro 2 & 3 getting around 8-9 hrs depending on who you believe), so Apple cannot continue to claim that Windows itself is the problem. Dell, Lenovo, and others have all been able to produce Windows-based laptops and tablets with decent battery life, why can't Apple?
Rob from Twilio here - appreciate the feedback.

Have you had an opportunity to check out TaskRouter yet? We released it a few weeks ago - definitely my favorite recent product that works with Twilio Voice:

https://www.twilio.com/taskrouter
Its true, this issue needs to be discussed more openly and a lot more people need to know about the problem - because it really does degrade the value, and overall utility, of what could/should be a premium hardware product. I just paid eu2500 for my new rMBP 4 months ago and it already looks like its going moldy ..

Buyer beware!
Then your issue is with sites that host content on http, and the solution is to address the content hosts—not deprecate a protocol. Besides, If you can MITM http then you can probably do the same for DNS, so https doesn't really solve the attack vector you mention.

Finally, Read this thread for use cases for http. They may not apply for you, but are sufficient that I think we can keep http around for awhile longer.
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Take a food combination chart, feed it into an algorithm with a randomizer and grouping parameters, have a chef pick out some good ones, and voila, a computer-generated cookbook to use as publicity for your computer and cooking school.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Food_Combining_Chart....