skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For whatever the reasons - the Japanese government decided that opportunities of building taller buildings outweighs the risks involved.

Both California and Japan have a long history of earthquakes and know the danger involved. When you look at the numbers, more people have died due to earthquakes in Japan than in California.

Prime example: CA 1994 Northridge earthquake (6.7 magnitude, 70 people died, $20B in damage) vs Hanshin earthquake (6.8 magnitude, 6400+ died, $100 billion in damage).

Are the fears irrational? Each culture has a different approach.

I agree with other comments though - fear of earthquakes is a minor footnote in the grand scheme of property development in California.
I haven't tried the hack, but it's something that had occurred to me for a while. We're using Slack internally and I've been wanting to get everyone in our larger organization to use it. Anyone with an email using our domain would be able to join. Which is ok with me. The only real flaw here is showing which groups are available (many of which can be client names or project names or product names that have yet to be launched). This is a serious lapse on their part
You'd be surprised how happily people will make abusive and hateful comments on sites with facebook comments.
More likely that hypervisors will be refactored to take advantage of the additional protection level.

See PrivateCore (now Facebook), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivateCore & http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/53165/is-it-poss...
Fuckedcompany served an important role as a reality check on some of the more idiotic aspects of the bubble. As an entrepreneur who was active at that very time I really want to thank you for providing a bit of a backdrop against which my strategy made some sense. I realized early on that 'go big or go home' would probably translate into 'go bust or go home' and I felt that the huge number of businesses that ended up in the 'go bust' bin versus the ones that made it turned the whole art of running a business more into something resembling a lottery.

So I agree fully with not bringing it back but if we ever get into another out-of-control over-hyped dumb money situation then I really hope that you or someone like you will do a re-run of fuckedcompany.com.
It works now, thanks! One side question: why is your hamburger (icon) a Double-Double (http://www.in-n-out.com/mobile/double-double.aspx)?
Chicken's, Samurai and Ganja
I really doubt the future of replacing cards is a smarter card :)
There is a commercial one. Twitter doesn't have to allow them to carry on in this fashion, and it is a massive enabler of trolls. It's attitude towards online abuse is shockingly neglectful.

Trolls will always act, but that doesn't mean we have to put up with letting them use the some of the most powerful communications mediums of all time to do so.

Twitter has a massive pulpit to make statements that influence social change. Deleting the weev account won't stop him, but would make a very powerful pronouncement about what the company views as unacceptable behaviour, would diminish his "credibility" and change the narrative.
Yeah, a friend of mine works there and I'm kind of a regular user :)
Yes, locking private information is not DRM. But if you separate "private" information from "published" information, then for DRM to become [logically] evil, you should restate your claim about why is it evil to prevent unlimited sharing, because the generic "virtual restraints" on bits no longer works.
I think the weak link in the chain is only after decryption, but before uncompression (for lossy formats, so books excluded). See, for example, [1] and [2], where the authors look at randomness and entropy measures of I/O to find where the decrypted-but-compressed buffers are.

[1] http://moyix.blogspot.de/2014/07/breaking-spotify-drm-with-p...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/node/182951
The innovation is that you don't have to pay 100K in order to be a city driver
You could start writing it.
Twitter is also used to manipulate democracy movements. A while ago there was an FBO bid posted to Hacker News for sock puppet software to manage social media accounts and multiple apparent writing styles.
> maybe if downvoters explained their actions, it won't look like they are trying to censor discussion.

Hey, you willingly went into an online community. You should have expected to be downvoted into oblivion, and also possibly doxxed and swatted.

Right?
I don't know about the music, but Avatar, one of the most pirated movies of all times, was also one of the most financially successful. It seems like making quality movies still pays off.
The article shows some examples where you can choose between regular brackets or curly brackets. There's a lot of different ways to say the exact same thing. Why? Which is best? Are there any cases where one works but the other doesn't, and if so, why does the other exist? But maybe I'm too used to different brackets meaning different things. I'm used to Java and Groovy where brackets are used very consistently.

The type safety goes way overboard with extremely arcane, incomprehensible expressions. The excessive power of the type system makes compiling far too slow. And the pattern matchers mean you can easily get your type back when you need it. I really strongly prefer the more dynamic approach of Groovy. Total type safety is a trap.
> It’s worth noting that on Hacker News, you can be downvoted for being factually wrong.

Also for having a differing opinion, the incorrect number of characters in the post, misaligned chakras, irregular weather patterns, cosmic rays, etc.
Sounds pretty serious, then.
Perhaps. I don't think people are as noble or reasonable or responsible as you obviously do. I'm envious of this somewhat :-)

My gut feeling is that most of the '50% busy' people I reference above do not identity strongly with the assholes in their community, but neither are they going to go out of their way to do much about it, and that includes listening to anything the other side has to say. They're going to usually conclude the truth lies somewhere in the middle and then move on to the other shit that occupies their time. It seems to me that, over time, a totally unmoderated and free community devolves into chaos and bigotry - look to television or talk radio after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine for a solid example.
I understand the difficulties. However, just as I would not support a lawless society, I do not support the laissez-faire attitude of the reddit admins. And the reasons are much the same.

We choose between letting everyone go free and dealing with the consequences, or restricting people and living with the consequences. There is no right answer.
Nice timing coincidence: recently I decided that I would not comment on a story if I didn't have anything positive to say about it. I found it that it's a lot easier for me to focus on one tiny flaw and point it out that actually making a contribution to the article. My number of comments has really gone downwards since then, but hopefully their quality will go up.
Large wattage items aren't on for that long in my experience. We could get our electric use right down and probably run it on solar during the summer months, save for the fridge/freezer, fan in the bathroom, the kettle and hair dryer.

Even with our paltry electric use we are still getting high bills (UK)! Expense is the biggest incentive for us to get our electric use down.

If server farms have become a bigger polluter than the aviation industry, I see that as a challenge. Use the hardware as efficiently as possible. Caching layers could hugely reduce CPU use. Perhaps we could measure an app's power consumption aswell as bandwidth use?
The way companies handle security disclosures lately (i.e. laughing it off, or paying $6 reward), it seems like shaming them would work much better. Plus, this is truly a beginner-level failure, the kind you'd get insulted for by Linus.
This is a capitulation - even Google uses Slack instead of Hangouts (although just a few teams); even Microsoft instead of Skype.
random@company.com also works. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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It's not just about story stream, it was also about different users needing to see different things based on settings, permissions and function outside HN...until recently, the software that powered YC and powered HN were the same.

Like Dan wrote, "Getting rid of those closures was a pain, and it made the code more complicated." The tradeoff pg made was for a bit of inconvenience in user experience for a much simpler architecture that allowed him to run HN as a side project while also running YC and writing the essays we've come to admire.

You might have made a different decision, sure, but I can't say it wasn't the right call for his circumstances.
Visa does as well :)
The developers are lazy about maintaining this software. It's not called 'stable'. I don't expect they would do better after this campaign. If you don't do it right, there is no reason to criticize others for doing it better.
It's not like it's preventing people from tinkering with FOSS or anything..
That doesn't solve the problem, it just moves it to other venues.
It's been months and you are still working on it? YGBKM!
Is that top overall karma users, but then sorted by comment karma, or is that actually top comment karma users?
Zapp launches their UK mobile payment platform
Usertik – My startup with no funding
I'm grateful that I can read the author's account of her experiences, and her analysis of what is going on sociologically. Her story is utterly shocking to read and I feel terrible for her.

The general phenomenon of misogynist trolling, and in particular the wave of misogyny masquerading as #gamergate has been astonishing to read about. There's something deeply, deeply disturbing and raw going on here and it is hard to see the contours of it.

It's a pity that a 12-hour old HN submission [1] of Anita Sarkeesian's moving talk at XOXO [2] didn't get much traction (indeed a sock-puppet immediately emerged to denounce the submission as 'trash').

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8423719

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah8mhDW6Shs
Society decides. And sometimes it comes up with the wrong answers. But I don't think that pure freedom comes up with the right answers, either. There are consequences to both sides, and the consequences of no action can be just as bad as the consequences of too much action.

There is a wide gap between being hesitant and serious about prohibiting things and accepting everything for fear of overreach, in my opinion. We need to work towards a middle-ground.
True, but it still feels like the right thing to do.

I'd like people do be responsible when they discover a serious flaw in my programs, so I'll try to be responsible when discovering one in theirs.

Also Linus basically insults anyone for being alive.
Ideas can be discussed and challenged. Threats and harrasment are not ideas and should be dealt with differently.

Organisation of campaigns of threat, harrasment and violence is on the boundary, and needs careful consideration. But the worst case is very bad; a sufficiently powerful hate campaign can provoke genocide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libr...
Several years ago I designed 1,500 W LED-based light source using extremely tightly packed LED's. Thermal management was a huge challenge. It took over three months of constantly running FEA thermal tests as well as physical tests to zero-in on an innovative approach to cooling the array. Crazy project. The surface of the emitter was measured at over 60,000 candelas per square meter. You simply could not look at the thing directly, it was really dangerous, almost like working with lasers.
Office Life at a Swiss startup
1) The slack web sign up seems affected too

2) Any email address, valid or not with a valid domain name works
HN is actively developed in Arc, but we don't own the language. It's entirely PG's creation, and I'm not sure what his plans for it are. Sorry, I realize that's not much of an answer.
Why assume the worst about Slack just because some other companies have handled disclosures badly?

Real people work at Slack, and very few of them were likely responsible for this oversight.

OP could still pat him/herself on the back after disclosing and waiting for a fix.
Yes, even test@example.com works!
Which is really frustrating, because Weev has been openly bragging about ruining Sierra's life for years. But every time it comes up, everyone seems to go "Weev is a hero! LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU SAYING BAD THINGS ABOUT THE HERO." And then everyone goes on talking about whatever he's in the news for now and never ever talks about the trolling. So nobody knows about it.
I down voted because you insinuate public figures have no right to complain. Sure, these things happen more to figures in the public eye. But that doesn't make it right. And it certainly doesn't invalidate their right to complain.
I don't think it's wrong to discuss protocols, in particular, in the context of a social problem. If we assume the concept of our world as an info-centric one - bodies as libraries, food as signals, etc. - then digital networks act as a boundary of this info-verse which is more manipulable than most, one which we can revise and reorder by changing the systems of communication.

However, even though it's "more manipulable" it's still not _easy_. "Social" in its surface forms - the forum, the comments section, the chat room, etc. - has persisted in a churn cycle where the form changes somewhat between iterations, but the characters, goals, and tactics are age-old. All the stuff about "us" versus "them" manifests itself in every permutation of every medium, whether it's "women" or "those bastards over the next hill" that are deemed the enemy.

Troll tactics ultimately come down to the old "signal to noise" problem. Forum admins know pretty well - if you trace the "noise" in a discussion backwards to the source bad actors, and then quietly remove those actors so that innocent people aren't dragged in, the conversation changes dramatically for the better. There is no magic algorithm needed, or even privacy invasion: just sharp eyes that can spot and predict the reactions to a problematic train of thought, and prune it out before there's a flame war. But we persistently end up in spaces where high volume is encouraged, anonymity is encouraged, and moderation is hands off, hands tied, or willfully blind. We are allowing Sybil attacks to take place on our networks all the time, every time.

Security aspects play a role in this, but they would be more of a long-term "how do we rebuild the internet" question; multiplayer games of a certain stripe(usually twitchy FPS games) have had to work around an inherent lack of security and the resulting cheating for a long time, and the best guarantees they've come up with are social in nature - as long as you can create identity persistence, the rest of the social profile can be built up.

Advogato put a ton of thought into technical aspects of identity and trust metrics; I think many of its results remain applicable to a new network. Blockchains also enable distributed persistent identity, but not unique identity. Perhaps we could incorporate market forces and allow identities or their postings to exist as cryptoassets - creating a universe where "valuable comments" translate to wealth. Or perhaps that would be our undoing, allowing trolls to profiteer off their own cultivated following. Perhaps we could force more accountability into the system by explicitly defining top-down fiefdoms and have individuals act to "represent" those fiefdoms, therefore motivating the leaders to moderate them into the best possible light.

As I see it, it's a big open field for protocol designers to come up with the right balance of incentives, privileges, and accessibility.
> Solar usually generates the most supply when there is the
> most demand, when the air conditioners are on in summer.

Not in places away from equator.
Shit big companies say
Do we really need a rule for everything? How about just being decent and treating others the way you would want to be treated?
> We choose between letting everyone go free and dealing with the consequences, or restricting people and living with the consequences. There is no right answer.

There is no right answer, but restricting information is the wrong answer, primarily because it doesn't work. The leaked nudes are still available, even if not on reddit. You can still download pirated movies, even if it's not as simple as it used to be. Eventually, we'll have to figure out ways of preventing/minimizing the consequences, without restricting information.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
-- Marcus Aurelius
Neither Skype nor Hangouts are intended to compete with Slack. They're consumer products, while Slack is intended for business teams.
Why should downvoters explain themselves to you - Kathy wrote a very long article explaining exactly why your reasoning is fallacious - go read it.
Motorola tried to tell me my phone warranty was off because I requested the bootloader unlock code from their site.
Well, they're wrong. They cannot do that. It's illegal. I have every right to unlock my phone.
Europe really is different from the USA.
try cal.henderson@slack.com
Show HN: Watson Developer Cloud
For more stationary projectors, couldn't you just make a larger LED array and focus the light through a lens, rather than try to do cram super bright, and presumably expensive LEDs into a regular bulb sized package?
It looks to me that swift is the only language that can compete with rust if it were open sourced, or at least available for general purpose usage.

Anyone familiar to swift internals here to say whether server-side swift is at least theorically feasible ?
No, their mission is to serve their customers, even at the expense of their publishers.
HackerNews API Changelog
no sure why this is getting downvoted? It's right off of their website's fineprint... There was a time when an attempt to be helpful comment like this stayed at 0 in the worst case..
Here are the ones for:

- amazon
- ebay
- facebook
- apple
- google

http://imgur.com/a/eWLEf
We changed the URL because HN prefers original sources, and the original story was the Buzzfeed piece. On the other hand, neither article is an obvious fit for HN, so I'm not sure what the right call is. Suggestions are welcome but may not be acted on until morning here.
Just trying it out now.

One quick question though - if I read an article and then go back and swipe left to get rid of it, would the app interpret that as me not liking the article?
I just realized that any facebook user can signup on https://facebook.slack.com/ with his fb username.
I'd argue we're "supposed to" maintain lifelong friendships, as we used to do before we were so geographically mobile. Folks used to grow up and live their entire lives in a small area and know everyone there.

What weight you give this depends on your definition of "supposed to", I suppose; personally, it's been greatly rewarding for me to maintain my friendships, some of which are almost as old as I am.
Daily Mail actually serves their website using Clojure and uses it for various other tasks as well. (ElasticSearch backend.)

Netflix: they definitely use it for Hadoop stuff, probably elsewhere too. And from this presentation they do a fair bit of Java interop with it: https://speakerdeck.com/daveray/clojure-at-netflix

Twitter/BackType produced Apache Storm, which is written in Clojure.

Not sure about the Guardian, I should ask, but they're definitely using it.
Exactly, it's not that there's an initial hump of energy loss that you get over and it gets easier, it's the same even with those you've known a long time. However, I've come to realise I spend a lot of time complaining about social interaction draining me, but almost none allowing myself the time to have social interaction and recover afterward.
HN has not helped me with any projects.
I can see that both Microsoft and Google have tried Slack at least. This doesn't mean they are still using it (vice versa).

Since Skype is not really light-weight anymore and Google chat did not really take off, It looks like that Slack found himself a good spot in between.
Warn HN: LAPD is setting up sting operations for Lyft drivers
Sorry for the sensational title, but it's accurate. A friend of mine just got his car impounded when he went to LAX to pick up a 'passenger' who was actually a LAPD officer acting as a honeypot.
Would you be willing to beta test my application? It's pretty much finished already and doesn't have any of the issues you listed (in addition to having a, in my opinion, much nicer design), I'd just be looking for some general feedback regarding the discoverability of some features. I could submit a beta today or tomorrow.
I think it's horrible she had to endure all this. Online harassment and is real and until we have laws for this we are mostly on our own.

I'm not sure laws will be able to stop all this single handedly. What we really need is something like shaming. We need to show no tolerance to those who take part in harassment, and even supporters, maybe. We kind of have this for racism and it works more or less. It's amazing we're still going through it when it comes to sexism.
Bad thing is that every facebook user has email id `fbusername@facebook.com`. So you can easily get into any team you want.
Yes, my opinion is definitely not one of a hero, even the iPad thing was unprofessional, I mostly don't think he needed to go to jail for it, however, maybe that's karma, he went to jail for something he shouldn't have because he didn't go to jail for something he perhaps should have.

It's so strange that he did this before the iPad incident, and it's not mentioned at all. Did no one Google him?
> It's deploying, testing, environment issues, metrics, databases, dns, etc. Basically it is a lot more complex than "learn to code".

You're mixing the "everybody can code" idea with "everyone should become a professional software engineer". The former is a great idea, the latter not so much.

"Everybody can code" is about basic computer literacy. Too many people do boring and repetitive jobs on their computers. Basic understanding of programming should help people write that Excel macro that saves them a few hours of manual labor. Or make more informed decisions when being a customer purchasing software engineering services. To understand what a computer program or programmer can and, especially, can not do.

If I'm asked "should I learn to code", the answer usually is "if your job includes repetitive tasks using a computer, the answer is yes".
It will end up being a similar situation as money dashboard, where using it voids your banks fraud protection.
Oh, I mean if I don't fall asleep within 45 minutes, I get up. There's no point lying in bed hoping for sleep past a certain point for me.
his or her comments

The book is copyrighted by Ed Weissman, so although it's possible "Ed" is short for "Edna," the higher probability can be assigned to "his" in this case.
He went to jail for something he shouldn't have because he didn't go to jail for something he should have.

That's karma for ya.
And this is why you should silo customer domains from internal domains as github did (smartly)!
Somebody already posted some screenshots:

http://imgur.com/a/wLShq
Sure. But there's not much to complaint about when those 3rd parties f* up, if you used them voluntarily...
Why JSON sucks for configuration files