I would add site24x7.com for server monitoring. We're monitoring all sites and services in our small startup for just $10 a month. Sends out all type of threshold alerts and supports scheduled maintenance. Many other features I haven't even scratched the surface of.
Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
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Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#72I find that my problem isn't finding services that match a requirement I have, but picking which one to use. It's totally overwhelming how many services do pretty much exactly the same thing these days. I love that it's like this in the sense that there's healthy competition and they're all pushing each other forward, giving each other ideas to improve, etc... but as a pure consumer of these services, it's incredibly…
I like to look for tools and services that have the most integrations with other products as well as a feature rich API so I can integrate my tooling with it.
Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
First, this conversation is not going to be comforting and your red-alert alarm should be going off. I know this is building toward the dystopian future. I personally use Signal, put my cell phone in the microwave when I come home, and am writing this through a VPN. That being said, I'm 100% confident that Google, Apple, Amazon, and more know WAY more about you than I do. This system only looks at public data and onl…
This is very odd. How did it happen that you're the ship-steerer for this highly cutting-edge tech? Where did the research come from? Usually, this kind of stuff doesn't just pop out of the ether, and I've never seen anything quite so promising in this domain before. (Maybe I just haven't been paying attention.)
> Personally, I'd rather be the one guiding the ship, because I do ask myself the same questions you're asking.
I'm not necessarily the one guiding the ship, but I'd like to be (by being the largest on the market), and I'm just working to launch this as a business (called Metacortex). Fact is, I've spent years building this out for my trading platform. Most of the research is my own, with some contributions from open source and academia as it relates to NLP. That's why I submitted a patent on it, I want to corner this particular (and seemingly highly effective) method.
That being said, I've worked on products with similar goals, and have done technical reviews of WAY creepier products. Luckily, those other products rarely work at all. IMO the technology isn't quite there yet (outside of some of what I demoed), however, it's uncomfortably close.
Snowden told us this was happening, years ago. I'm sure they've improved since.
Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#74Anyone knows about a team shifting saas around there?
A tool that could help me to design and automatize a shift schedule for security guards for instance.
Basically I am looking at the following assumptions: - 24/7 coverage - 8 hours shift - 40 annual leaves days per year - 14 days of certified sick and uncertified sick leaves per year. - need for 52 periods of 2 consecutive days off (week ends). - team composed of 3 personnel. - 15 working days of training in the year. - teams of 3 personnel for each shift.
So I could easily answer how many teams of 3 personnel do I need and what type of shift schedule works for that?
Would you have any idea about that? Thanks.
Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#75Anyone knows about a team shifting saas around there? A tool that could help me to design and automatize a shift schedule for security guards for instance. Basically I am looking at the following assumptions: - 24/7 coverage - 8 hours shift - 40 annual leaves days per year - 14 days of certified sick and uncertified sick leaves per year. - need for 52 periods of 2 consecutive days off (week ends). - team composed of…
If you have a business school locally, ask a MBA student/professor.
It is a standard resource allocation problem in decision support model, supply/resource allocation and management courses in MBA program.
If you do little bit digging online for textbooks in this area and available supplemental materials, you should be able to find a pre-designed spreadsheet to solve your problem.
Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#76Anyone knows about a team shifting saas around there? A tool that could help me to design and automatize a shift schedule for security guards for instance. Basically I am looking at the following assumptions: - 24/7 coverage - 8 hours shift - 40 annual leaves days per year - 14 days of certified sick and uncertified sick leaves per year. - need for 52 periods of 2 consecutive days off (week ends). - team composed of…
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Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#77What does everyone use to pull credit reports? Is there a good, affordable vendor with an API?
Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#78I find that my problem isn't finding services that match a requirement I have, but picking which one to use. It's totally overwhelming how many services do pretty much exactly the same thing these days. I love that it's like this in the sense that there's healthy competition and they're all pushing each other forward, giving each other ideas to improve, etc... but as a pure consumer of these services, it's incredibly…
Alternatively, trying to decide to pay for an off the shelf solutions or build it yourself (medium sized company).
Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#79Related to this, using: https://hnprofile.com/ You can identify who is an expert related to each tool or any topic in general
How do I opt out, I don't expect such an invasion of my privacy from posting on HN.
The opt out currently, for privacy moving forward, is to cease contribution to the digital noosphere.
I suppose if you desired you could consolidate your doxx point to Google and ISP's by running all your comments through a couple rounds of Google translate.
There is no privacy possible in the global village. Expectation of such is technically naive.
Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
The probable mood is very funny. > dang > Probable Mood: Tense The eternal life of an admin I suppose!
Just now it was "Happy". Probably because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944992 contains "grateful". Sentiment analysis is a finicky thing. (Maybe categories like "polite" or "argumentative" would be easier to detect?)
Conclusion: this user is emotionally not stable :D