skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot more details in this new article:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sinking-Millenniu...

Including comparisons to neighboring buildings with a very well done chart. And this frightening statistic:

On Friday the transbay authority released a report by the engineering firm ARUP, showing that the Millennium Tower is four to five times heavier than any other building in the area with a similar foundation, including 100 First St., 199 Fremont St. and 555 Mission St. Building weights are measured in kips — 1,000 pounds — per square inch of pressure on the soil below. The tower at 555 Mission, for example, is 487 feet tall compared with 645 for the Millennium, but it exerts 2.4 kips per square inch while the Millennium exerts 11.4 kips.
What factual information do you think is missing from peoples' understanding. In my experience people assume the government is doing more spying than it is.
Keyless SSL is a great thing for people who really can't convince their auditors that it's okay to share their keys. But, it has its own problems like:

> Note: Keyless SSL requires that CloudFlare decrypt, inspect and re-encrypt traffic for transmission back to a customer’s origin.

That's not particularly different (to me), but I have a different threat model. Again, it comes down to what scenarios you care about and what you're comfortable with in exchange for <something>.

Even initiating tons of sessions is likely to mean that the key server is going to be busy. But if you're really concerned with sharing you key with us, I agree CloudFlare's Keyless SSL provides a real service that does a lot for you without handing the key over explicitly (you just have to keep doing your part).
This hasn't happened to me, but it would be pretty crappy to find out you lost your domain because the script that your domain registrant uses to renew your domain name is slower than park.io's script.
I might get downvoted for this, but here's a story.
We just finished picking a brand name, after 2-3 months of intensive work.

Being fond of .io's I naivly googled my <brandname>.io, and found that park.io owns it - this happened last week. I immediately sent an email to inquire. We considered the price, and then when I came to buy it today, a week after, the price is tripled. This was a fixed price domain, NOT bid.

That's clever price manipulation. Detect when someone wants something, let it sit, and when they're ready - triple the price. Maybe that's a hint for how he made so much money? In any way we'll just do the get<brandname>.io or something like this, as a compromise. Thanks for being a douche, park.io!

And then, magically, this is now on HN :)
You could have made the same argument about any technology when it was first created. Why didn't that happen?
Now if only they could build a videogame in to a microscope, kids would be hooked.
It's probably the same evidence that causes people to say Hacker News is in decline, the internet is in decline, society as a whole is in decline. Occasionally those predictions are right, but usually they're not.
I'm continually dumbfounded by how Americans are so concerned with holding onto jobs, rather than moving forward.

It shouldn't be a matter of holding on to the jobs, it should be about helping people transition to new jobs.

The industrial revolution was amazing and wonderful, but for the people who get caught under the wheels, who didn't know how to adapt, it was nothing but pain.

Here is a poem to illustrate what I mean: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detai...
Highly duplicated:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%09The%20Most%20Intolerant%20W...
If you find this funny, I highly recommend this TED talk: "This is what happens when you reply to a spam email"

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_...
Yes and no. The fact remains, even with higher incomes, housing increases to mitigate the gains. I mean, in spite of all the income is anyone saying SF CA is an affordable place to live?
>What may be missing is (a) raw engineering talent in the way Stanford or (previously) Bell Labs produce it. You need a few people who are above and beyond everyone to start the really exciting stuff. And (b) possibly the funding infrastructure.

I would challenge that. Some universities in Germany are very strong in Engineerung and natural sciences at the same time. During my studies I have worked with incredibly talented people. However most of these stayed in academia because they found business too boring. Actually that used to be my plan as well, however due to a number of coincidences I didn't pursue a PhD.

One might argue it's a vicious circle: the strong engineers stay to a large proportion in academia, some of them leave into big companies. A tiny rest gets lost in the startup world. So the people who start companies concentrate on Club Mate e-commerce and weird business relationships - not attractive for other strong engineers to join etc etc... ;)
Well can we just think the other way around.

StackOverflow is a community driven website for a society that is used to follow rules and be disciplined.

Nowadays, the popularity of the website put it in a bad position. Handling millions of impolite, pseudo-developers, who've heard that it can help them with their problem.

In other words the community and popularity changed, not StackOverflow. And no it's not dying, it's just working! Sorry for some of us that remember the times where questions were mostly high-quality, but I don't think there is a way to prevent collateral damage in this case.

I prefer to read "opinionated question", instead of 10 paragraphs about a problem that in the end is unsolvable by logical decision.
Did you eventually find out why you were downvoted?
100M years of decorating yourself in junk
It's unfortunate that this comment got down-voted. If you wanted to see someone's .plan file. You use the finger command. ie, finger jcarmack@facebook.com. Of course, very few people if any still run the finger service. The above post was a subtle humor that needs a history lesson.
I'm not sure what the point was in the first place? Sodium lamps approach 200 lumens/watt. LEDs are whiter, but whiter light doesn't necessarily help you drive, does it? If the concern is colored signs, light the signs?
Homeowners on the Move Are Choosing More Affordable States
It's easy to think so if you've been programming for a while, but try to teach programming to kids (or adults) and realize this really does depend on some inherent ability and/or interest (and this is even with a self-selected group who chose to go to a programming course).

You probably can get most everyone programming at a basic level, like we did with reading and writing, by requiring it at a primary school level.

However, a lot of these people will be about as useful as professional programmers as the average person is as a professional author.
stack overflow is one of the best dev resources available.

do people not remember the dark days before trying to unblock the answers in expert sexchange?
Automation is reality.

Industry 4.0's path is being charted as we type, and this is posted today in terms of logistics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12575147

There are things like hospitals that will be tougher to tackle. Money is the currency of power, and I don't see us abandoning power any time soon. So, "Star Trek post-scarcity economy?" I don't think so. However, we will likely experience a temporary(perhaps decades) imbalance between the supply and demand of human labor. In that time, elements of a basic income, or practical equivalents will rise.

I'm not necessarily an advocate of basic income, but an advocate for the basic welfare of everyone.
Funny, but depends on the reply-to address being legit. Which most aren't.

An even better project years ago launched DDoSes against the SITES spammers were linking to. Much better.
The point is that you're pretty much forced to partake in automobile ownership because everyone else decided buildings should have to be spaced ridiculously far apart. This is either directly, through density maximums, or indirectly, through zoning and parking requirements. Houston may have cheap housing, but it also appears to have much higher commute costs than most US cities.

http://cityobservatory.org/introducing-the-sprawl-tax/

Anyway, I don't think we even disagree, really. I like green space too. I just hate laws that pretty much force everyone to have a horrible commute because living close enough to your job to walk or cycle, or having enough people in the same space to support transit, is almost illegal.
> "I haven't heard a good political-economic explanation of how a universal basic income that actually finances the living expenses of a large portion of the population avoids spiraling into yet another welfare program.

The point of a UBI in the academic literature is to enable dismantling of high-overhead welfare state in favor of a low-overhead and higher-level grant (check out eg the overhead of Social Security Retirement income vs Social Security Disability income), but that tradeoff is somehow never actually offered."

Two main points:

1. UBI is a form of welfare, but if you're concerned about UBI spiraling into a welfare program in the sense of means-tested welfare, why would it? If everyone gets the same, and the basic needs are all met (including free education and free healthcare) the only reason it would change into a means-tested program is if the government couldn't afford it. Which leads us onto point 2...

2. When it comes to financing UBI, it's best not to do so through taxation. Instead you do so through money creation. At the moment the system used in countries like the UK and US for money creation effectively is a money-making venture for the banking system. By moving to debt-free money and using UBI as the vehicle for new money to reach the system, you minimise the risk of UBI contributing to government debt.

Lastly, there is another way to not use UBI but still tackle the same issues, and that's to make the basics of life free for all. However, I'd suggest that would require coordinated effort on the international level, UBI seems like a more realistic transitionary approach.
I once made the mistake of sending a joke reply to a spammer from my legitimate email.

Turned out they pulled my phone number from the WHOIS info on my domain which I can only assume they sold to some marketing companies as I received about a dozen cold calls from various "web agencies" from the states. A lot of them were relentless, calling me repeatedly and leaving voicemails.
I think there's some miscommunication here. Certainly, it's possible for light to damage the retina. It's likely that blue light is more apt to cause damage because it's higher energy. This doesn't mean that LEDs producing a larger blue component are more damaging than LEDs (or other lights) with a smaller blue component. It's entirely possible that at the intensity artificial light is used for indoor and street lighting, how much of the light is blue is irrelevant.

I didn't read this entire article, but it seems to be discussing the general mechanism of light damage. There was no reference to LEDs. I'd want to see something that gave reason to believe that the blue in LEDs poses a threat.
Reminds me of golden rice. It was created to solve nutritional deficiencies in about the same populations, but didn't succeed. I hope this initiative does.
Too popular?

The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.

Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at argonaut.skymaps.info Port 80
Nope. Silicon Valley has run out of "bros."
As far as I know, the only issue is that we don't support Windows atm. Which in most cases is fine -- you can develop on windows using vanilla asyncio, and use uvloop when deploying on *nix.
SELinux sandbox escape – CXSecurity.com
I've idly wondered how I could restrict queries to questions that have been closed as too <whatever> or not enough <whatever>, as those are often the most interesting and educational items, even if they don't answer my specific question.
While you are correct, I think the distinguishing difference here is the rate of change. Automobiles became commercially viable and then common years apart and in some areas decades. The industry - and underlying jobs, infrastructure, etc - had time to adapt and change.

For self-driving vehicles, I suspect the window of time between "commercially viable" and "common" is a few years, ten if we want to be pessimistic.

So will society (jobs, infrastructure, etc) adjust quickly enough to absorb this change without major pain?

I don't know but since we know it's going to happen, I think we should push the conversation towards "what's next" and figure out how to help people get there instead of just lamenting the loss or complaining about the lament.
And home prices are, what, 8x to 15x US average?

You can buy a great house in Omaha for $150,000, a comparable home in the valley would run $2,500,000 or more. And yes, you can get a job in Omaha that pays well!

Unfortunately, many people now have to treat the valley as a stepping stone, it's a gauntlet to endure long enough to make substantial money and then they have to get out. Get rich from options or some other liquidation event, then pack up and move to a place where cost of living is vaguely reasonable. For many people, the only way to stay in the valley longterm, establish a household, maybe have a family with kids, and comfortably afford a generic "middle class" standard of life, is with a truly significant payout, the type of payout that would define someone as "rich" elsewhere in the USA.

I know this is uncomfortable and unpopular to discuss, and we're all very fortunate to even entertain such discussions especially compared to the hardships of most Americans and global citizens, but who in tech has not experienced this? Whether it's the enticement to go work in the valley for some theoretical payday, or the feeling you must leave once you reach X net worth otherwise you'll never be able to actually afford it?
While StackOverflow is still an outstanding resource, they never really solved the “why bother?” problem for the really difficult subjects.

Your choices are: answer a trivial JavaScript question and get a million points, or spend an hour painstakingly explaining a hard problem for maybe one point (where, half the time, the original submitter doesn’t even bother to “accept” your answer so you lose even that small point boost).

There needs to be some scaling factor. For example: if the number of questions anywhere on a certain topic is quite small then popular answers in that area could receive more credit; or, perhaps individual parts of a post could be voted on to increase value (say, you see a really detailed example so you “tip” that answer for taking the time to write it all out).
>As for more artistic jobs
http://ostagram.ru/static_pages/lenta?last_days=30&locale=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VTI1BBLydE
What matters isn't color temperature, but the presence or absence of light in the range 360-405 nanometers, which activates certain neurons in the retina that suppress melatonin secretion. This light can be "unseen" because visual receptors don't respond particularly strongly to it, so it can be masked by much stronger emissions of yellow light. However, it still has an effect. Color perception is irrelevant in this case.

http://press.endocrine.org/doi/abs/10.1210/endo-119-5-2201?j...

http://jap.physiology.org/content/110/3/619.short

Fires and the moon emit very little light at this frequency.
For the price of an okay family home in an okay neighborhood of Palo Alto you can buy a villa in the South of France...

I'm still not sure how to process that.
Good luck, though it looks like you're making good progress already. Last time I had to wait for CloudFront I sat there thinking "this would be a real pain if I actually needed it now..."
How many kaggles have you been in, and how well have you performed?
Eatsa is not automated. It's just an automat[1], with people in a conventional kitchen in back filling the glass-fronted boxes.

The Government as the employer of last resort (see Works Progress Administration) has a better track record than a basic income. Plus you get a lot more infrastructure built.

[1] http://www.theautomat.com/
this is a really important point. how do you curate for good content while not demoralizing contributors?

and it's a more generalized social challenge. in coaching for example, you need to improve a player's abilities and instincts, which essentially implies that what they're currently doing is not so great. the easiest people to coach understand that they are not already perfect. those who are hardest to coach are those who already believe they are good enough.

for the player, there's a tension between having the self-esteem to assert yourself while having the maturity to accept criticism. you need to be able to encourage both behaviors while maintaining a balance between them.

as you point out, the challenge for an online moderation system is providing a similar balance to users/contributors. the social distance between contributors and moderators makes it hard not to become defensive.
I'm for more hostility. There should be more difficult to ask questions, there are way too much people asking idiot questions there. Allowing this makes the site worse for people who really have important questions.
"I feel like a broken record..."

But it needs to be said.

No one is going to ever say it, but SSL/TLS can be used to better hide the fact that companies like Microsoft and Google are siphoning off quantities of personal data from people using their browsers.

Sometimes a user wants to "MITM" themselves, i.e., set up an HTTPS proxy, to see what's being sent from their devices. That should always be an option available to the user.

The motives of any company that starts making that more difficult to do should be questioned. These companies are legally obligated to put their interests first, not the user's interests.

They can spin it to make it sound like they are advancing everyone's interests at once. But if they are not advancing their own interests first and foremost, then they are not doing their job. Users need to be more active in protecting their own interests.

Fundamental to those is the ability to monitor one's own traffic, e.g., outgoing data.

Any option that cannot be turned off ceases to be an "option".

The recent story with Lenovo's BIOS favoring Windows 10 by not letting users disable a certain power management setting is another example.
Good thing Swiss citizens just refused the basic income, by vote. Goes along with today's vote: Swiss have authorized their own government to perform surveillance on them to "prevent terrorism"...
> No human alive has the self-awareness to write about themselves objectively.

You and OP make way too much of this. Have you actually read any autobiographies? As with any piece of writing, you have to form your own judgements, but people can't completely fabricate their life stories or delude themselves about the reasons for their success.

Autobiographies I've read, and enjoyed, even though I think the writers are all in different ways dishonest, include Malcolm X (street gangster turned religious leader), Gandhi (moralistic prig with weird sexual perversions), Bertrand Russell (projects saintly calm but had weird bouts of rage) and 50 Cent (claimed he never smoked crack, and it only accidentally ended up in his bloodstream). Still, I believe all four are accurate when describing the reasons for their success.

(For more honest auto-biographies, I'd recommend Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill, and Richard Feynman, off the top of my head).

Either way, no-one writes "I achieved X by doing Y and Z, it was simple", it's more like "I tried to achieve X by doing A, and that went disastrously, then I tried B, and made some progress, then I realised X was a waste of time and went after Y, and noticed most people who wanted Y did Z but that didn't work for them, so I tried doing C, then D, and then E, and that's when things began taking off".
A Google self-driving car was involved in crash in Mt. View today
> It was explained to me that LEDs output blue wavelengths not present in the natural environment.

So I'm no expert but I don't think this is true. All wavelengths of light exist naturally in some amount.

> The energy then dissipates in your eye and causes damage.

Energy "dissipating" in the eye is how you see.
For most of my bugs I switched to read the source on Github. Works better for me
Where is the link to the actual study? I could not find it in the article. Anyone have the actual journal article?
Hi sorry this happened - most likely it is owned by a park.io user and they can set the price to whatever they want. Feel free to reach out support@park.io and I will see if I can help
> No more so than a proprietary protocol. All the IM clients and apps are different, just like all the email clients.

What? No, if my colleagues and I all decide to use ${CLOSED_CHAT_SERVICE}, the user experience is generally going to be consistent.

> What matters is that I should be able to just get anybody's IM address and message them with my client and service of choice.

This is what matters to you. I don't care what client I use if I can't use it in a way that meets my business needs, like sharing screen shots.
Yeah, less stimulating is a bit vague. I was thinking of the effects that playing video games has on the reward center of your brain - the creation of dopamine... more related to addiction than outright stimulation I suppose.
It's very simple: I will not purchase a phone with this feature. Period. I don't need technology nannying me.
To be protected against DDoS it sounds like you need to be hosted by Google, CloudFlare, or Akamai. Yet these companies are so influential and critical to the Internet that journalists need to feel that they are free to criticize them.

AFAIK Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3 etc. will drop you in a second with a "we're not getting paid enough to deal with this" error message if you bring a DDoS down on them.
Hum, do we really need to see this as white and black. Work or no-work? Why not just introduce 30 hours/week or even 25 hours/week. And by that I mean employees keep the same weekly salary, companies use the gain in productivity by automation to give back some family time to employees. What we get in exchange, is one or 2 extra days of consumer spending. People tend to spend more during weekends anyways, so everybody is a winner. We keep the same salary, we have an extra day free in the week, companies get the 15% increase in consumption, and get slowly ready for full work automation.
The US has ~120,000 people employed at fossil fuel generation plants and about 65,000 employed in the coal mining industry.

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=19271

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Stat...

I guess lots of the 120,000 work at smaller gas plants.

There's ~1.6 million people directly employed as truck drivers.
> So much so I've stopped searching google, I've just got a lot of SO tabs open.

with all due respect but SO search isn't quite stellar.
For more than a decade before SO existed I was searching the internet and successfully finding answers to questions. There were good sites and bad sites then, good sites and bad sites now. SO didn't change anything. If it didn't exist the information would still be out there and searchable through other sites.

Usenet/DejaNews (pre-acquisition) were my favorite incarnation but there's never been a time that the makeup of sites at the time didn't result in the right information being easy to get.
It is growing fast - avg of last 3 months is $125k. Yes it is revenue, not profit