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I'm amazed. Michael, if you're reading this - get someone else to handle this situation. Anyone, even it's just the guy who does SEO.

Your company has appeared on HN before, and as a YC-backed company you should probably have some idea of the type of people who are part of this community. It amazes me that you believe you can respond to this story by attempting to doxx trusted long-term users (or rather, just plain lying about their identities) and claim that the people here are attacking your company.

Even more so that you believe you can claim that a "majority of the comments [in this HN thread] come from competitors and banned users" (@livecodingtv). Most of the people in this thread have never used your products (myself included) - and in response to this story, many who may have never will.

You are the one attacking your company. Stop lying on Twitter. Stop trying to avoid criticism by claiming that your (outraged) potential customers are competitors or spammers. Stop trying to remove pseudonymity from HN commenters (especially the ones trying to be at least slightly sympathetic to your company).

Consider the fact that you may be facing legal action for some of your behavior. The way you respond to these accusations will undoubtedly be reflected in any proceedings, and at at the moment I don't think you're helping your case. (IANAL)

I'm not going to make jabs at your psychological state like a few of the comments here have, but it would be in your interest to visit a mental healthcare professional (if only to check you're capable of handling the pressure caused by this story).
In case anyone else was like me in wondering what the outcome of the Walmart case was, it looks like they finally accepted the fine in 2014: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/19/walmart-black-frida...
Actually, bridging is actually a first class citizen in Matrix - it's why the project's called Matrix (as we want to go federate/matrix together all the existing silos out there). Current bridges include:

* IRC (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc)

* Slack (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-slack)

* Verto (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-verto) (for talking VoIP with FreeSWITCHes)

* Respoke (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-respoke) (for talking VoIP with Asterisks)

* Purple (https://github.com/matrix-org/node-purple/tree/master/appser...) (for talking through to Skype, Facebook, XMPP, ICQ, AIM... and anything else that libpurple supports)

...and a whole bunch of 3rd party ones too like https://github.com/SkaveRat/xmpptrix. Some of these are pretty beta, but they're all headed in the right direction. The IRC and Slack ones are the most mature.

Glad to hear that you think we are on the right track! [Disclaimer; i work on Matrix]
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>I wonder if mentality and national traits even exist.

Sometimes, but more often they're more propaganda than truth.
> You're always going to pay a premium for getting something fast. For an expensive item like a car, that premium is going to be huge.

At least right now in the US, there is no premium for buying a new car in a single day.

> It's a huge purchase that requires a great deal of research and thought. In the unlikely event that you can find something you can move into immediately, you'll have extremely restricted choices and probably pay way more than you needed to.

A car isn't anything like a house. Pretty much every house is different. The location of the house matters and can't be changed. House build quality varies tremendously, requiring in-depth inspections. There's a ton of paperwork to get through, with 24 hour periods on offers and counteroffers common.

Cars come off an assembly line. Every 2015 Honda Civic is like every other 2015 Honda Civic with some minor differences in trim that you can evaluate online or within five minutes of getting into the car at the dealership.

As long as you know what kind of car you want, which you probably already do, there's nothing to "get right". (Although there's things you could do wrong, I suppose: don't walk in and tell the salesman "hey I really need a car asap.")
Out of 5 android devices I've owned only one received major version update (and it didn't work). So, anecdotally, one does. But I believe my case is more common than yours.
Actually, the "someone comes in from the right" is already there, the right-national has almost 14% of the population behind it now, with more people being able to "imagine voting for them".

And with them saying things like "Yes, there is a problem with the refugees from Syria, sadly, the concentration camps are currently closed" it’s getting a bit scary.
You're probably mostly reading English language media, which reports a lot less on German stuff than American and British.
Probably if one read Frankfurter Allgemeine, Spiegel and Focus, this would have been popping up there a lot.
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Suicidal thinking is always significant. If you're having thoughts of suicide please seek help.

Suicide in the UK is the leading cause of death in men under 45.

The cause of the disparity between male and female deaths is not fully understood. We think it's a combination of lethality of method (men tend to use methods that are harder to survive) and lack of male help seeking (although we've recently seen a rise in death among men who are already known to MH services). But there's probably other stuff going on too.

Suicide statistics in the UK come from the Office for National Statistics. So they are accurate and robust and clearly defined, but it helps to know what the definition is so you know where the stats are wrong. For example: a death that is counted as suicide in someone over 15 may not be counted as suicide in someone under 15. Methods come from ICD10 classifications.

http://ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Suicide+Rates

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_395145.pdf

Other information about suicide is listed in the National Confidential Inquiry http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs

If you're in England there's a national suicide prevention strategy, and each local authority should also have a local suicide prevention strategy. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-preventio...

CALMZone is a respected UK charity aiming to reduce male suicide. (Perhaps similar to the (robustly named!) Australian group "Soften the Fuck Up" http://softenthefckup.spurprojects.org/ ) They've recently launched an interesting twitter based campaign. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10491576 https://www.thecalmzone.net/2015/11/big-news-calm-and-lynx-l...
Oh I know, I meant that them placing the limitation for 31 days is primarily a marketing thing.
Pretty strange line of reasoning. I'd guess a clean and healthy economy are not exactly typical preconditions for "a round three".
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Is there a printable (or kindle) version of this website? I've seen it before and it looks fantastic. Would love to load it on my Kindle and actually work through it.
Because this defeat device is nothing you should blame on a single engineer, it is clearly a systematic issue, and normal engineers should not be held accountable for actions that the CEO and board forced them to do.
And the US just adjusted their clocks for daylight savings yesterday.
Ding ding ding.

Also, hello from Indian Point, Buchanan, NY! I can see a containment dome as I write this.

Next up on my Snake Plisskin-esque commute is literally going through Sing Sing prison: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1506265,-73.8700067,613m/dat... (those train tracks are the Metro North Hudson line, among other things)
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That's excellent. I'll remember that.
I remember that when Wikipedia was new, people were more willing to trust something that a random guy said on his website or in some book rather than what was written on Wikipedia. I never understood that. Wikipedia at least has more eyeballs.
My current project is HelloBox - it's something I've been doing for awhile, but there's a plenty more to do.

http://hellobox.co

I started it out as a "create your own hackernews clone" idea, but it's now evolved into a more of community management tool. I'm hoping that it'll soon be able to charge people for the service it's providing. Would love to hear your feedback!
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I wonder what effect this has on YC interview decision making.

Would be great to do an analysis on the acceptance rate in the morning or just after the break vs later in the day and see if there are significant deviations in the rate.
Now try to follow the same thought process for other sources of information. Ever see a citation in a newspaper? How do you check the facts on the evening news? What is the sequence of events leading to something being reported (and believed by the vast majority of people reading it)?

1) Reporter discovers something (how???) 2) Reporter submits it 3) Some editor approves/rejects it (how/why???) 4) A very good looking person presents it to you on TV along with audio and visual designed to make it look plausible.

If it turns out to be untrue, is it reported? What if you discover that it is untrue yourself? How do you correct it?

So yeah, even more popular that wikipedia, but hard to determine how accurate.
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So far no. I've been using Duo Lingo, which has been surprisingly good to get the basics, plus a bunch of learn German audio files I found. I'll probably sign up for classes soon when I find some good ones. A friend of mine took classes aimed at tourists and said she didn't get much from it.
I like the idea. Really great and neat. What is your business model?
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I wasn't asserting anything here, just pointing out that there has been an alternative for almost 2 years.

It looks like ES separates repos by version[0], if that helps at all.

[0] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/mast...
[ED: this was in response to a deleted comment about world war 3 coming...]

I can assure you Germany is not out of trash.

Germany is still years away from 100% renewable. But is actually making progress to there. There's a lot of coal still dug up and burnt for example.

Germany has had lots of immigrants for decades, and things have been mostly peaceful.

The current leader (Angela Merkel) is considered to be from the right, leading a conservative party.

The democracy is one of the most stable around, and many people are anti war.

There are serious issues with the German economy, and the state of the country in general. It's not highly ranked internationally for things like GDP or internet speed.
This can give you the characters but not their ordering or frequency. Still, it's a nice information leak. Yet another reason to disable custom fonts.
Just a quick update - I can no longer reset my password, so either they have actually deleted my account now (great!) or just changed the email address. Either way there is no use speculating now as my profile page is a 404 and there is no way to tell with certainty one way or the other whether my account has actually been removed (I suppose one could try to register the username "Lazer", but I am way too sick of this to go near their registration form again).

I filed an ICO report early this morning when the libel on their website stayed there overnight with no sign of changing hours after the cofounder's and Y Combinator president's replies; I simply didn't know what else to try and someone suggested looking into the ICO. So I guess it will just be in their hands now and I'll see what comes out of it, if anything. For now I think this is the end of the road in terms of getting the best possible outcome with a company like this. They are clearly not going to admit their mistake and they seem to still be in (seemingly really bad) damage control mode. I think any further interaction with them would just be a waste of time at this point.
hardly necessary, the code is just meant to explain the reasoning with manipulable variance

but i offer it to you for future use under the GPL
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Can you explain what you mean by tokamaks "going against the physics"?
Keep. I have a iPhone 5S and with the original markup, I'm unable to read the site in portrait.
Indeed. There's studies in how to bias an article whilst maintaining the illusion of NPOV (simple example: if you support X, always add an adjective when describing its detractors, but leave supporters unqualified). There's also pretty well documented cases of people with an axe to grind on specific subjects locking an article in their favour.
This is a big step in the right direction. Could use a bit of work but it's good enough that it will probably replace my hn app which has never gotten commenting or voting quite right.
Currently there are almost 250 escaperooms in the Netherlands. With 1.7 new escaperooms being added every month I can safely say it's going fast in the Netherlands.
Lots of great ones as well! The scene is a lot further than in the rest of the world. US has +/- 500 rooms. NL 250 :).
And I know 10 more rooms will open this year for sure.

I played my first room in 2013 and started working on our escaperoom platform Escape Rooms Nederland beginning of this year. Biggest platform about escaperooms with reviews, news and comparison. Played around 40 rooms myself.
Really love this phenomenon. Hopefully it will stick around.
If you ever visit the Netherlands and want to know the best one in your area. Let me know.

A new thing is growing popularity as well, Prison Island.
You should check it out as well.
Except for Edge, which has an "eye" symbol to show password fields content.

idk if that makes edge vulnerable to this on password fields though.

edit : I read below that Edge does not expose the password through this vulnerability.
Not really - Wikipedia still makes you say, "That can't possibly work." Think about it - the first and most definitive, accessible source on any subject you don't know anything about, is something strangers on the Internet can collaboratively edit, troll, or subtlely subvert. This just can't work - except that it does!

It goes counter to everything on the Internet. You would expect it to read like the comments section of a news article - instead, it's more definitive and factual than news articles themselves. Amazing!
But think of the proportion of wealth / GDP that isn't leaving the country to import oil and natural gas. It makes sense that producing the vast majority of your energy needs yourself would have a significant positive impact on your economy.

Not that the single trite explanation could address the whole of their success, but certainly could account for a 'bump'
Also listening to German heavy metal while coding, not sure if it helps, but there's a genre called "new german hardness".
And oftentimes the ones rallying other behind said traits are the first ones to ditch them in private. As seen in history again and again. For example during the fall of the roman empire. Except maybe for Cato the younger[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_Younger
It's an improvement, so yes.
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Ask HN: Bug in time display?
I'm seeing "28 minutes ago" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487048

And "20 hours ago" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10487048&goto=item%3Fid%3D10486271
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I am not seeing that problem on my device. What version of Chrome are you using?
Yea the plan was to move to Amsterdam but after a while I didn't really want to go anymore.

Also, consulting work for small businesses is pretty boring from an engineer's perspective (or maybe just mine). There's really only so many cool things to do to a small website (and then repeat with the next one).
Ask HN: Where is Who is hiring thread ?
Is there no who is hiring thread this month ???
It's more appropriate I think to compare W7X to JET, not ITER. They're not trying to break even on fusion with W7X.
Clickables:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487048

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10487048&goto=item%3Fi...
Thanks for this. It was really fun to watch a CEO completely torpedo his startup in less than 24 hours by publicly flipping the bird to a message board filled with its would-be users for some reason I cannot begin to fathom.

We should do this again sometime.

EDIT: After reading through a bunch of the CEO's comments, I'm now seriously concerned there may be a mental illness at play. I probably shouldn't have made light of the situation; calling out several users such as minimaxir as Alex from LiveCoding honestly seems delusional.
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Is that supposed to be a joke?

Besides betraying a rather shallow understanding of history (e.g. implying that "round 1" had the same causes as "round 2"), I do think at this point an American accusing Germans of fascist tendencies and war-mongering is pretty rich, what with the drone wars and the global surveillance and all.
I just got a Motorola Moto G to replace an aging iPhone 5s. I do like Android, but there are so many features of it that I find just completely irksome.

For example, Google release Android 6.0 but I can't upgrade until Motorola decide when and if I can update my phone. Why can't I upgrade at the same time as everyone else, like on iOS?

Second is the abysmal permissions system which grants access to everything and anything - else you can't talk to your friends on Whatsapp.
The US could do like France and just make it legal to spy on everyone, but it would be a hard bill to pass.
It's an improvement, but the up/down-vote buttons are still way too small to hit comfortably.
If raised in an affluent suburb, they might surprise you.
If you're interested in physics in metal, I suggest you listen to Negligent Collateral Collapse, and particularly their first album, Reprocess Segment Database Extender. Great fun, although not suitable for everyone's ears.
Their wikipedia page[1] appears to have been edited by the founder too. (In which the company is described as a "multinational").

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livecoding.tv
This is another attack that is also preventable using NoScript, which blocks web fonts.

Unless you trust the site.
Great!! Looks you need to do lot of things to get these data. How big is your team?? How do you collecting this data (I assume you are not going single places). It's really great.
My understanding is that REM sleep is the most important bit of sleep[1], and ever sleep cycle (~1.5 hours) you get more REM sleep than the previous cycle.

While I haven't run the numbers in years, I remember comparing the total amount of REM sleep between someone who slept 7.5 hours (5 cycles) straight vs. someone who slept 9 hours, broken into half (3 cycles and 3 cycles) and finding out that the 7.5 hours got more REM sleep overall.

Granted, this is a very rough calculation based on average numbers of a very simplified explanation, but it would be an interesting issue to research.

[1]per our current understanding of the brain, which is quite lacking overall.
Aye. There's a lesson here to be had for all of us, which is that sometimes you've got to step back and let someone who isn't as emotionally invested in the company as you take the reins, as you can end up doing extraordinary damage to yourself by acting rashly.

I speak from experience - I've been at this lark for a decade now, and have on more than a few occasions found myself sincerely regretting how I've responded to a situation, as I've ended up emotional and escalating the matter, rather than responding rationally and calmly. I recall literally pounding my head on the office wall - in front of an investor - painfully to this day. Childish.

We all mistakes, but we also have to learn when to admit our fault, and when to step away from a situation because we aren't the right person to handle it.
I thought it would be about c++.
> People who work at facebook probably have enough money to not be desperate about earning more, and to be free to focus on just making cool things.

But Facebook as a company is under tremendous pressure to boost earnings! Facebook stock has a Price/Earnings ratio of about 70; that means that at the current rate of earning, it will take them 70 years to justify the value of the share price. There's no way shareholders are going to be willing to wait that long. Strong market forces are pushing Facebook to quickly grow profits, and in that process, privacy just happens to be an externality that's not worth protecting.

All employees will definitely feel the pressure (directly or indirectly) to contribute to profits, because Facebook management "owes" that to shareholders who've funded this whole operation (under current market ideology).
Bail, or keep but fix text size / wrapping in nav header

iphone6 / ios9 / chrome

issues in nav header:

(1) "submit" link wraps so it's under "new", shld
be same line as "ask | jobs | "

(2) username (karma) | logout
has similar issue; "logout" wraps
From: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

>This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring?' post at 11 AM Eastern time on the first weekday of every month.

The thread should be posted in a couple of hours.
Just saw this: "New advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor". Plus the usual "10 years away!"...

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/541996/a-workable-fu...
Oh boy, this is 20 years old. Why is this even coming up.
The AfD [0] has gotten votes mostly from the CDU. But they're still below 7.5% in latest polls from about 3.8% in 2014. The green party even has more than them.

It does seem much of that is a protest against the policies of CDU. These people would rather immigrants freeze it seems.

If an election was called now, then a left coalition would probably get in, since CDU and AfD are unlikely to team up.

[0] http://pollytix.eu/pollytix-german-election-trend
The only one I've been to did exactly that.
Sorry for the late reply, but yes, the biggest difference is the ability to be politically aware, and learning how to keep your team out of the politics as much as possible so they can get the job done.

Getting stuff done at any organization is more about finding out who the stakeholders are and getting as many to neutral or positive as possible so that you can execute. But in a large politicized organization it requires significantly more political navigating and energy compared to say a startup where usually a good idea can win even if the person isn't that great at the politics.
Might be useful in conjunction with a path-relative stylesheet include.

http://blog.portswigger.net/2015/02/prssi.html
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Here's a comment on that by Prof. Dr. Sibylle Günter, Max-Plank-Institut für Plasmaphysik (In German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweAVoaVB34

The current schedule is to have an operational power plant in 2050.
Was the UI really heavily multithreaded compared to today's systems? I thought there was a lot of events and message-passing going on in AmigaDOS much like in current GUI systems.