skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ELK is a good option - I'm a fan of open source.
You can build it on your own (http://logz.io/blog/deploy-elk-production/) or you can use ELK as a service (disclaimer, I work for Logz.io which offers such service).

We see customers use ELK to detect intrusion attempts by monitoring and alerting on:
- Access from specific countries
- Internal connections to specific countries
- SSH auth request
- Correlation between failed logins across multiple machines
- kernel exceptions (which may be buffer overflow attempts)
- AWS VPC Logs
- AWS Cloudtrail logs - we internally use it extensively to audit access

HTH
> That's very problematic from a copyright stance

why? they didn't copy slack (i assume) - it just looks similar. Slack doesn't (and shouldn't be allowed) own a look and feel, as long as the implementation of it is cleanroom.
By now most ecosystems are dead and many species became extinct. No matter if we eat meat or vegetables, ride cars or bikes, the biggest contributor to environmental devastation is the sheer population size. Now it is a lot, and it will be more.

Of course, once can take an anthropocentric approach. But, in my humble view, world is not only about people.
WebAssembly won't do anything for the latency delays of a myriad of support files (javascript, CSS, images) which is the key problem for small apps and non-applicatino pages, HTTP2's better handling of multiple files (or for HTTP(S) grouping everything into one minified block) won't help if they are coming from different 3rd parties, ...

That is an issue that needs to be addressed by people changing how they currently build some pages/apps. It is particularly bothersome when mobile and stuck on a slow high-latency connection.
"Engineering hiring isn’t a filtering problem. It’s a sourcing problem." Yes and all hiring is a sourcing problem, when it comes down to it.

There are so many recruitment companies are out there on the horizon, especially in London right now.

It's a big space to dive into and a lot of people assume that they can tech their way out of it, but it takes a lot more than a fancy algorithm and a joint dislike of shitty recruiters to be useful.
Remote Agent on board Deep Space 1 was debugged that way:

http://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
> And he's "doing" more science this way.

but he's not "doing" science anymore, and if i were in love with doing science, i really wouldn't want to go into finance, do lots of stuff i don't personally feel passionate about, get really rich, then pay other researchers to do science.
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What if you could live without paying rent? What if all your basic needs were met without needing to earn money? What would you do with your time then?
It also transforms programs that use it from "cannot run with a little bit more memory" to "can run forever with a little bit less but still finite memory" which sounds more like an optimization. People are probably solving a problem that needs more, but still a finite amount, of memory, and very likely not solving a problem which needs infinite memory. So calling it an optimization is perfectly warranted.
If you instruct a machine to optimize for the cheapest price; it will do that.
The failure is in the instructions given, not the introduction of machines.
Here is an example of a simple useless todo app, good luck with your complex multipage layout...
- Every js framework ever
Because almost certainly engineers will want to integrate an on-premises system into their existing system, and that will trigger the AGPL for all the systems that are network-connected to the AGPL system.

Unless you are sure that your engineers will know to not try to integrate the AGPL software with any of your existing systems, I agree that people should just stay away.
There already are a number of IRC client web frontends. The one I'm working on is Glowing Bear -- https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear . It uses a proper IRC client running on a server (WeeChat in a terminal multiplexer) and connects to that via WebSockets. Minimal reinvention of the wheel, and you can continue using all those nice scripts, triggers, and filters that WeeChat offers. The frontend (Glowing Bear) is completely static and runs 100% in your browser, connecting to your server directly.

I really don't get those projects that consist of a designer frontend and a terrible half-baked IRC client in nodejs.
The grandparent comment mentions it was client/server, which probably means a network. AFAIK, Windows NT was certified as C2 only without a network, see for instance http://csc.columbusstate.edu/summers/NOTES/CS459/NT-C2.htm ("Windows NT's C2 certification was conducted on a stand-alone computer. Hence the computer needs to be disconnected from the network by uninstalling all network hardware and software on the system.")
Whilst I take your point, worth noting that Slack does offer an IRC gateway to allow for use via an IRC client. Not quite the same thing as basing everything on IRC, but better than nothing?
That Kai Hendry looks like a right pain in the neck...
[adds email address to blacklist of potential future startup]
One of our client's websites was recently cloned and hosted on the back of a hacked .org TLD. The cloned site immediately trumped our client's website in rankings and severely impacted their SEO (sales dropped drastically). The sneaky part was that the cloned site was only displayed to GoogleBot and normal users were redirected to a website in China selling fakes. Google support were completely unresponsive and didn't understand the problem. In the end we just blocked the scraping website's IP address from accessing our site - unfortunately sales were affected for over a week.
Kirk Odom notwithstanding, presumably they were only doing hair anlysis of suspects that were already presumed guilty. This is not a random sample.
I do like how they double down on the pseudoscience and had Odom performing regular lie detector tests.
No, it has not. You cannot get the energy out of that battery that quick.

That makes a huge difference. For example, TNT has about a tenth of the specific energy per kg of gasoline (4.6 MJ/ kg vs 44 MJ/kg; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density), but is more useful as a bomb because you can get the energy out very quickly.

If you could get that amount of power out of a mobile phone, it would probably be a bomb.
> Whatever you do, sending a shitload of spammy email notifications [...]

Yeah and thanks for that pop-up to prove your point.
Spending that much time to qualify for a single job is too much to ask of anyone

How can you state that as something absolute? I certainly understand your position, but I would be _glad_ to do something like that. My reasons

- I hate white boards and quizzes. I would fail those, probably.

- I'm not interested in travel time, just because. Give me 'homework' and only meet if you're prepared to make me an offer (other issues notwithstanding - it's okay if you reject me afterwards if I show up without wearing pants) without any more bullshit

- I value my free time, but I also love to work on Things™. Any such 'homework' assignment would be a tiny pet project to drag me away from YT/HN/Awesomenauts and force me to learn something that I might not have picked myself

In fact, I even thought about posting an Ask HN sort of thing to offer (limited somehow, day-job and being a dad and all) working for free in exchange for the input. I just haven't done it so far, because of fear of failure/rejection.

So - you state a good point: People might not want to invest the time. But please speak for yourself only, not for the industry. I very much like the idea of presenting work done at home.

That said, I probably wouldn't do both. If someone asks me quizzes first (and I manage to pass for weird reasons, stars align) I wouldn't invest more hours. You, the employer, just wasted hours with crap while you could've gotten ~reasonable~ accurate ideas about my work. If someone asks me to do one of these assignments, invites me to come over and THEN starts the quiz BS I'd probably get up and leave.

Employers: Pick one way to test my skills. My preference: Judge skills in a remote/async process, use the face time to check for a cultural fit / negotiate / talk about the company, position and job: "We invited you after seeing your work, here's why you should work with us, this is the offer and these would be your coworkers - let's chat and do the tour"
OK, but Americans hate cars. Everything about them. The sound, the paint, the polish, the leather, the tires. Everything.

But especially the costs.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-dont...

Since Americans hate cars so much, we have to build an economy without them.

Trains are a good way to do that.
I'm glad there are others in the information war who don't share that defeatist attitude. SOPA and PIPA were defeated and the exposure of the NSA phone metadata program has spurred an unprecedented movement to encrypt the web. The fight isn't over by any means.
The efficient, egalitarian solution to poverty is improvement of the home countries, not open borders. This is most obvious for China; that country has so many people that if one attempted to "solve Chinese poverty" via brute force importation of their people, the entire First World would have flipped to a Chinese majority. Instead, Chinese poverty is being solved more than an order of magnitude more efficiently and less disruptively--this is a thing that is actually happening, not spherical-cow theorizing--via trade, technology transfer, and related methods.

Open borders may still have merit (I'd certainly value the additional convenience), but your argument for it is obviously wrong.
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It'll be grimly ironic if, having dragged behind the rest of the industrialized world for decades, suffering with all the attendant poverty and problems that dogged pre-industrial societies, then rapidly caught up, China end up being one of the first countries to shoot right past it to a totally post-industrial society, with all the new problems that are predicted to accompany it.
I'd think that for $300K you could have demanded an API. Perhaps on the next one?
You can download windows install files from Microsoft nowadays. There's a downloader that also includes functionality to burn a DVD image or create a bootable USB stick.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-re...

As for the "it's not something most people know how to do": Buying a new computer also requires you to transfer files from the old to the new computer. And requires you to install your software. I'd say that both tasks aren't significantly harder to perform than clicking "next" on the Windows install dvd.
Not really, simplifying simple operations (like multiply by a constant) is pretty much Compilers 101 / Dragon Book kind of stuff
I also assumed Mattermost supported IRC, without even checking. It's a bit disappointing that it doesn't, but I wonder how easy it'd be to add support for IRC in Mattermost, given that we have the source code?
I just checked both sites, they are both up, the fake codemonkey site and the real kmsurvival.com.

neither show up on the first 3 google pages for "km survival" or "kmsurvival". I have to google kmsurvival.com to get you to come up on the first google page. you have some seo to do. good news is the fake site never came up on any of the searches above.
That'd be the fallacy of the excluded middle. There's middle ground between austerity and wasteful government spending. It's not as though countercyclical spending is particularly heterodox (though certain implementations can be).

For example, one of the most successful anti-austerity measures was the "kurzarbeit" program of the German government, which prevented mass layoffs and kept the German "mittelstand" (the backbone of the German economy) afloat.

"Kurzarbeit", very simply put, is a program that allows businesses to keep their employees employed part-time, while the government makes up for most of the loss of wages by paying them benefits. Once the recession is over and orders are coming in again, they go back to full-time employment. People don't lose their jobs, there's no drop in consumption, and businesses don't have to go through painful layoff and rehiring processes for high skill positions.

In America, which has a more consumption-driven economy, food stamps (i.e., SNAP) have been shown to be one of the most effective forms of stimulus; not only do they keep low-income families fed, but because the marginal propensity to consume is basically 100% for SNAP recipients, this then creates business for supermarkets, which in turn can keep employing their workers who also have a high marginal propensity to consume, and so forth. As a result, increases in SNAP spending were probably one of the most successful parts of the Recovery Act [1].

[1] http://www.cbpp.org/research/snap-is-effective-and-efficient
It seems rather fitting that the Web's language would be developed in a transparent and collaborative manner.
Not my problem than the S&P 500 only returned 4% from 1998 to today. What do you want me to do, start counting from the bottom of the market? Nobody knows to buy at the bottom of the market because the bottom can only be known retrospectively.

Sure, if you invested in 2002 then your returns might be 2.5x today and the inflation lower, and the tax rate might be 20% (or whatever, I'd have to redo the numbers)

If you invested in 2000, however, you'd make 40% on your investment, lose money to inflation and THEN pay capital gains tax. You'd be getting taxed for losing money.

So I picked a more neutral date like 1998 where it wasn't a bubble yet, but not close after a crash. I didn't include dividends because I'd have to add those constantly as the divident yield from S&P 500 changes from month to month. It's around 2% (actually under 2% for the majority of the last 15 years), though, so that does change the numbers.

I would say then the inflation is around ~2%, dividends around 2%, stocks grew around 4%, so around 6% year-to-year nominal profit which you would pay 0.9% capital gains tax, and 4% real profit which is 22.5% capital gains tax (0.9/4 = 0.225)

Consider the following:
A single individual with $200,000 salary with two personal exemptions would pay $45,000 in total taxes which is the same overall rate even though the marginal rate is 33%

So a rich individual who doesn't work, but only sits on $5,000,000 that yield him $300,000 a year (and that 5M loses $100,000 of purchasing power a year) would pay the same federal taxes as an individual who just works for his $200,000
This whole saga pretty much has to inspire someone to build and reverse engineer the machine/recipe. The overlap of people who like to tinker with this stuff and people who love the chalk seems big enough.

It's also interesting that they seem to be somewhat oblivious of the US demand. At least it seemed like that. My guess is that they could have sold one of the machines to a US based entrepreneur. I can pretty much envision somone making that chalk in a garage and selling it to universities/individuals.

I also think that it's somewhat short sighted to assume procurement by the employer is needed. Especially in "brainy" jobs it's pretty common for people to be willing to spend their own money for tools they use on the job. If my school only provides chalk X I'm pretty much willing to spend some of my own money for the better chalk if I can't change their mind.

Maybe they were just "too big" and targeting a commodity market instead of going for the smaller premium market.
I always run a null default virtual host, which serves no content and logs no traffic (or maybe logs to a default-access.log).

It deflects a lot of blind security attacks..all of which would fail of course, but I don't need that noise in real log files.

This would solve your problem too. If you're feeling vindictive, redirect requests for the offending domain somewhere that will be bad for their SEO.

EDIT: I should add that a null default vhost will exclude HTTP/1.0 clients. But that's a non-issue unless you're serving to very old embedded systems.
So many slack alternatives are coming up because slack is really good. It's that simple.
> We’re a YC-backed indie video game company releasing an open source alternative to Slack.

Don't want to troll you guys here, but if you're a video game company why are you spending so much time building a Slack clone?

I was expecting some short of explanation in your blog post like "we did this because this serves as a core piece of our company for X reason and Slack didn't fit our use case for Y reason".
Maybe government should tell companies that they need to treat "full time" workers differently from contractors and companies would gladly employ their workers full time.
no ldap?
You still have to make system/library calls to do anything evil. You can obfuscate the logic, sure, but it's still easy to tell where important things are happening.
Here's mine, with the preface that we're still iterating our deployment procedure as things are quite early.

I have an Ansible repo with an init task, which configures new boxen (makes sure proper files, dependencies etc. exist). Then to deploy, I have another task that ships a Dockerfile to the target boxen group (dev, staging, or prod) and has them build the new image, then restart. This happens more-or-less in lockstep across the whole group, and scaling up is relatively easy - just provision more boxen from AWS and add the IPs to the Ansible inventory file. Config is loaded from a secrets server, each deploy uses a unique lease token that's good for 5 minutes and exactly one use.

I'd love to hear how to improve this process, since I'm dev before ops. My next TODO is to move Docker image building locally and deploy the resulting tarball instead (though that complicates the interaction with the secrets server).
True. Did it always offer that? I seem to have missed that feature last time I checked Slack out.
It's because Ruby thinks {} is a block. All Ruby methods can implicitly take a block (why? who knows...), so the single-line block syntax is parsed as such before it can be considered a hash argument into the method.
Bowery has shut down
They're a hardware company that aren't very good at software. It sounds like they found out that USB3.0 stopped working on some of their test machines, did the simplest 5-minute fix and called it good.
Or terms that said the operating system should keep pace with update availability.
It's just a screen sharing, no?
No it won't... It will at most trigger the AGPL for the integration off that system... which is it's proprietary no one will ever want... hence no one will ever sue you to release it.

Are Tinfoil hats on sale or something?
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I'm speculating here, but from my experience with Windows powered oscilloscopes: Windows is on the measurement device, it's not a networked or USB controlled peripheral with a documented network protocol connected to a standalone PC. When you open up "Device Manager" you'll see a bunch of specialized USB and PCI/PCIe peripherals that make up the actual measurement function and user-interface.

So the company selling the spectrum analyzer would have to publish quite a lot of their internal documentation regarding hardware registers for the data acquisition boards, and they'll be reluctant to do this: Much of a modern measurement equipment's functionality is inside the data processing, and by documenting the interfaces it would make it possible/easier to reverse-engineer or extent (without paying for options) the functionality.
The layout of the sticks and main buttons are the same.
It's like back in 2010 when everyone was building free / open source Basecamp clones.
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Ask HN: Why do I always see “X has shut down”, but have never heard of X?
Over the past 2 years I've seen maybe a hundred "X has shut down" postings, but many of them I have never heard of, and some of them looked like a company I would have liked to have done business with.

So, what gives? Do companies just not advertise themselves enough?
You may take it as a satirical piece, and read it only for the fun. :-)

But otherwise there won't be anything useful or real to get from it, unfortunately :-(
They probably pivoted. ;)
No, just folks with a little more legal experience than "potentially and willfully violate the terms and spirit of a license because we assume nobody will ever sue us," which also doesn't scale beyond a team of two. Not enough people take license compliance seriously. (Your comment an example.)

Just to communicate the impact here, getting compliance wrong can result in significant legal liability. You and I are both unqualified to dismiss it or discuss it.
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IIRC, they're working at "fair but not doormat" - yes, gameable, but not so supine as to wait until the rush hour is over before nosing forward to indicate a desire to turn.
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Except criminal justice policy is uniquely conscious at the level of citizens. Judges and prosecutors are elected local officials in most states. Three strikes laws were passed by public referendum in places like California. Polls show 80%+ support in favor of keeping hard drugs illegal.

And anyone is ever guilty only because we define it to be so. In the state of nature, robbing a store and killing the clerk is simply the stronger animal exercising its free will over the weaker. And if robbery is illegal because we say so, I fail to see how the robber is less guilty of the crime because one country punishes him with 3 years in prison while we punish him with 10.
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It's not exactly in the mainstream media's interest to cover public opposition to this, either. For the most part, they have a vested interest in pushing this.
Idiotic article. It ignores the real decremental effects of overpopulation that are taking place presently. Moreover, 50 years is not that long. Consider how things will look in another 200 at any appreciable positive growth rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCm2QQZVYk
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I'm totally unaware of conventions used in public purchases.

Isn't an "electornic auction system" just a database anyone can spam - the actual decisions are probably made by humans? My hunch (might be incorrect) that the auction system creates a barrier of disinterest where the official has very little else to go with than the prices quoted. In this case it's not that the machine is stupid - it's way worse, the system stops actively humans doing what humans are particularly good at - separating wheat from chaff based on experience and intuition - if the official will never use the chalks and has no idea what the impact of the product will be.
They probably had to build similar stuff for some of their games perhaps.
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Can you really get rich via investing in the markets? Is it even possible?
> It's also interesting that they seem to be somewhat oblivious of the US demand.

I have no idea why, but with Japanese companies it's a common theme. Most don't even care about overseas expansion, and if they do, it's poorly executed (say, Daihatsu, who dicked around on the European market for decades without ever listening to even trivial customer wishes, and then wrote the whole business off because it "obviously can't work" – well, duh).
There have been a number of web campaigns* initiated in Australia that have gained some traction. As you suggested, that's the best bet for the average person with technical skills and a way to get a concept to resonate with people.

* This is one example: http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/
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