skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia (sorry), has a nice diagram that shows the different categories; the "crustal" and " deep" earthquakes being different from the subduction zone earthquakes that this article is specifically about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone#/medi...
I just saw this from the article:

> “With us, you’re holding the thinnest wearable ever made so it kind of tests limits of those tolerances. Over time, as we figure things out, we’ll make that variability smaller and smaller.”

Yes, a wearable. A credit card is totally what I think of when I imagine wearing something. Advice to CEOs: figure out what market you're in and concentrate on it! When you start throwing out random buzzwords, it gives the impression that you're making it up as you go. I don't want to hear "our entry in the Internet of Things space" (my words, not theirs) in the context of my wallet.
I've lived in Seattle for 20 years and the only earthquake I've ever actually felt here was the Nisqually quake in 2001. Contrast that with some parts of Japan where you feel quakes on a monthly basis or more.
This "manifesto" doesn't even try to consider tradeoffs. There is no analysis of stakeholder preferences or path-dependent UX/UI evolution or personal projects for fun and learning. It doesn't consider neither business requirements nor developer satisfaction.

However, the article is quite good at hipster shaming, so it gets upvoted to HN front page. A classic example of link bait tailored for its audience.

It's telling that your comment with point by point discussion of BFED propositions is at the very bottom, btw.

>He/she will not just use [insert buzz word here] to improve his/her chances of finding another job based on the current technology fad in order to increase their day rate.

And this quote is just... wow.
Yep, it's Kronos.

Fortunately, I only need to use it when I request PTO. I feel sorry for the hourly employees that use it several times a day.
What's old is new. Silverlight had a big focus on declarative UI that continues to today with XAML:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/expression/cc941385.aspx
Without the current unsafe package most performance sensitive applications (whether throughput, latency, or pause sensitive) will have no recourse to meet their current performance levels.

That will leave people to choose between staying on Java 8, worse (and often unacceptable) performance, and migrating to a different language.

At this point, there is a very good chance if your library/application is known for performance and exists on the JVM it uses unsafe and without a migration plan all of us who care about performance will likely have to move off the language.
It seems working now. (Mon July 13, 10:43 Pacific).

One thing I noticed is that the range is capped to 100 miles. An unlimited range would be incredibly useful for searching for used exotics, i.e. Ferraris, which is a valid input parameter :-). Since supply (both overall and for a particular configuration) is so limited, it makes sense to buyers to fly to see the car or to buy blind and ship the car to them.
That's a great quote! (the last line) That's something I've experienced but hadn't really been aware of until I read that.
Interesting. I currently fiddle around with a little game [0] to brush up my Javascript. It is exactly about this theme: Seeking knowledge to save mankind and Cthulhu. Alpha-quality warning! https://qznc.github.io/IncCth/

[0] assuming you consider Cookie Clicker et al "games".
Can't select the model when trying to do a search.
You cannot start a tweet with “D. Tusk”
reminds me of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ (NSFW language)
That's the only track where I could see it being worse. I'd gladly have difficulty on one track than every other track in the game.

Being unable to take any turn without having the track memorized by-heart is a large issue.
So it improves the performance for a very small number of Firefox users at the expense of the performance of all of the other Firefox users who never would have had the extension installed in the first place?
>How do we protect institutions who desire to loan money from losing it when they loanee can't pay back their debts?

Why would we protect institutions from the effects of the free market?

Why suddenly when it's a bank in trouble, does free market ideology not provide the solution?

>Both sides have a responsibility in this

I dont see both sides making efforts to work this out at all. I see greece in headlines owing money; i dont see headlines about DB being forced to agree to forgive interest on loans, cut employee salaries/bonuses, or take any kind of belt-tightening measures.

Where exactly do you see both sides taking responsibility?
One Year Is Not Enough: The Employee Retention Problem
Another case of using the word "disrupt" way too many times.
This is currently on the front page as "The Really Big One" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878160)
Why don't use haxe and openfl/nme and transpiling lisp code in haxe?
I worked at an organization that didn't let us use stored procedures or OOP because the older devs couldn't understand them (it was a Navy contractor, so there were guys that had been there 15+ years).

If you decide not to use a technology because the developers can't or are unwilling to learn them, you've got bigger problems than technology choices.
Worth noting that the state of warning systems there is somewhere between dismal and non-existent and the disaster preparedness of most cities seems to vary between unprepared and comically inept.

Is there anything anyone can do to set up an alert for these sorts of things?

If these predictions are true, there's a good chance that the entirety of Silicon Valley could be utterly destroyed. You'd think people would take more of an interest in preventing that.
I love it and use it whenever the credit card machine has an NFC reader. I usually pay with my watch and it hasn't failed yet.

I still carry my bank's debit card for incompatible readers, but after having my card blocked three times in the last three years for fraudulent activity, I love not having to give out my real account number whenever I can avoid it.
That's pretty close to what my parents sang when I was a child. Loved it. Especially when I had friends over.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878160
You understand of course that Sun has been out of business for a very long time right?
For a good read on another somewhat overlooked seismic zone: http://idlewords.com/2015/07/confronting_new_madrid.htm

Most people don't think of the midwest/great plains states as being seismically active, but they're home to some of the most geologically interesting history in the United States.
This will be added very soon. In the meantime, if you change "distance=100" in the url to "distance=all" you can search all results -- although in some cases we dont allow this (like if you havent select a make) as it is pretty intensive on the server when we have a lot of results to return.
Ahh I had no idea, thanks.
I have those, plus a debit card that I use for all day-to-day purchases. Apparently we're in the minority, though.
Not so fast.... these numbers are not confirmed in any way and can be gamed easily. I expand on it here.

https://www.launchticker.com/story/automotive-co-eliomotors-...

this is really bad for crowdfunding....
Do you have Javascript enabled? When you choose a make the models are fetched on the fly using AJAX
A year or so ago the Free Music Archive ran a competition "The New Happy Birthday Song Contest" to create a CCA licensed alternative. The winner is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8-pLlK_H-w
Is this really 2Gbps or "2GBps if you are the only person on that drop" at 4am in the morning?
It's a bit aggravating when articles give dates for when something will "eventually go into the public domain" without a caveat that copyright terms in the US have been repeatedly and consistently lengthened retroactively.

Going off the view that copyright extensions center around attempts to keep Mickey Mouse cartoons under copyright (1928 onward), a copyright date of 1935 means it is unlikely that Happy Birthday will ever go into the public domain if political views do not change.
For those of us that work on bog-standard websites for clients, I definitely agree with some of the points. I've worked on numerous projects where the latest and greatest tools at that time were used wherever they could have been used, and more often than not six tools are being abused to do the work that a reasonably simple build script would have achieved.

With that being said, all tools have their place, and it's all about realising what that place is. For example, using Foundation when your client has expressed a desire for their site to work in IE6 because their clients all work in large law firms and are limited to XP and IE6 (a genuine use-case I've had to build for about three years ago) your tool will probably fail you.

For me, it's less about being a "BFED", and more about planning your solution before you build it, something that increasingly few people seem to do. In a lot of cases where people do plan or spec work before they start it, it's done in a tool-oriented fashion. A developer will tell the client that they will build their site using AngularJS, but when the client says "I've tested this page in IE7 and it doesn't work. Please fix." they realise that a task they thought about take n hours will actually take a fair bit longer.

A boring developer gets the information they require first and picks a suitable tool for the job. If the requirements change, so be it. A boring developer will get the new requirements, and will adjust their solution accordingly. This is the kind of boring developer to be, not the kind that doesn't pick a tool because it's new.
True, if there was a vulnerability where reading a byte stream could trigger a JVM exploit, that is exploitable. But that would be a really weird bug, since the JVM isn't going to be the one parsing a byte stream.
> There are too many good ideas being born right now to risk falling into rigid patterns of thinking.

The problem is that there are too many ideas out there, period. It's almost impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff. See: JavaScript libraries.
If reducing your budget matters, then Greece has a very prosperous economy. Reducing your budget does not matter if doing so sends you into a (bigger) depression that makes your debt grow.

Spanish debt is growing fast, having almost doubled since 2010 (http://www.tradingeconomics.com/spain/government-debt-to-gdp).
Hmm, that's a very interesting point.

Particularly since I think the "geek" moniker could definitely be applied to the Shelleys. Byron, less so.
Elasticsearch with AWS Spot Instances
Here's a good comparison of the 4 big ones: http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/off-topic/coin-vs-pl...

They mention that Coin doesn't support "Track1 data" which prevents it from working at lots of big retailers
You can't make the topic of fairness "unnecessarily politicized". Fairness is inherently political. The difference between different people's notions of fairness, justice, and liberty are basically the founding reasons for political disagreements.

If you are asking the question "is this algorithm fair?", you are asking a political question.
What do this people say in their defense when you find them?
Hmm. There is truth to some of this, but like everything moderation is key. Use your experience to pick new tech that meaningfully improves UX, DX, maintainability or some other metric without creating problems. It does exist. Likewise, don't be the boringest of boring developers because you'll miss out on key innovations and your product will suffer. Unless, that is, you want to make a name for yourself as Supreme Leader of BFEDs for career advancement purposes, in which case host a clickbaity blog about it and argue from a highly polarized position ... oh, wait
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> When did scratching ones own itch become a bad thing in the open source community? <

the day certain people with commit privileges decided that chasing Apple/MS's tail was a smart thing...
That does seem likely, though as far as I know, AWS's biggest zone is located in Northern Virginia. And, I'm sure the AWS people have planned as much as they can for this eventuality. (Um, I hope.)
The problem with your answer is that nontechnical people will never be able to hire technical people well. They simply do not have the skills to judge technical talent; at best they can hire based on secondary characteristics like "they really sound like they know what they are talking about". Nontechnical founders who successfully hire good tech talent are just lucky.

I think this same maxim goes for tech people trying to hire sales talent, or nonfinance hiring a CFO, etc. You're just not equipped to judge, and you don't have the time to take CPA classes (or learn to code, or get an MBA, etc) just to hire someone.

The situation is not really this grim, because you should have a social network which can help vet hiring choices - either because the candidate is already known, or because you know someone that can do the interview for you. But "knowing people who can help you hire" is not really a skill.
We can live without Robolectric? How do we write tests for Android code without it?
They now have an html5 video player, which I think they just introduced a week ago. BBC is about the only site I've seen that requires flash video, but I'm sure they'll get with the program soon.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876210
I would argue it'll be prove more succesful eventually as well. It's better to start over from a clean slate (even if potential investors might become scared to invest in a defaulted country) compared to becoming perpetual financial slaves, which I think will be the future of Greece if they choose to stay in the Eurozone.
Could a tunnel even survive an earthquake above 8.5?
I count one (1).
Good Design Is as Little Design as Possible
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878160.
I think the workout one is great here. Whenever I feel like my mind is out of energy, I go and exercise for a while and usually my mind feels more energetic afterwards.
AWS West in Oregon are somewhat further inland from I-5. It would probably be impacted, but not to the same degree as the datacenters in other cities like Tukwila.
Futurama created these lyrics with the same tune to avoid the copyright. I believe they avoided any trouble. Anyone know if they had legal issues?

http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Futurama_Birthday_song
I'm sort of coming around to this perspective as well. Ever since I read this article[0] on more of a APL/J/K style to CSS (the author's blog's CSS looks like this[2]), I've noodled with the idea of doing straight CSS again, in this pretty condensed format. It's kind of shocking at first, but does have its own charm.

[0] http://prog21.dadgum.com/200.html
[1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/p21.css
Wow, I've had the complete opposite experience. In most/all stores I deal with regularly, you can swipe your card at any time while they're scanning your stuff. You can do the same thing with the watch. I've been able to get away with using it in countries where it wasn't officially supported yet, as well, since it's just NFC and no one has explicitly blocked Apple Pay there (sadly not the same in the US).
Results may vary.
So you move the JS into the markup, with special attributes. Hmmph.
Battery life is just right to mean you'll upgrade.

If Samsung had Tim Cooke in charge they would produce much better phones. Not even slightly contovertial IMO.

You left out point 10 which was the whole point of the comment. Glad you liked it ;-)
I meant this to be a bit tongue in cheek, of course this wouldn't actually happen in any serious way or matter if it did, but suppose it hints at a broader point that tech needs to be inconspicuous to have mass, everyday appeal.

I'll admit, setting up an automated camera tripod rig at a non-professional sport event would make me feel a bit awkward.. and dare I say pretentious. That's just me, I only take part in really amateur level sport where this would be the case. I can totally see lots of more serious/competitive athletes going for this.
Maybe you could, as long as those lifetimes don't happen to contain that one 6.8 event. I don't think the point was to look back several lifetimes from right now, but rather to talk about the overall frequency of earthquakes in recorded history. (Caveat: I know nothing about the seismic history of the Pacific NW, this is just how i read the statement.)
First things first: This article presents a lovely sentiment — although any argument against CSS preprocessors is a losing one — and is a timely reminder to focus on the things that matter.

However…

When was this published? There’s no date anywhere on the page or even in its source code, but he mentions supporting "IE6 and below". This is actually no longer possible if “HTTPS” is a requirement, as the best version of SSL supported by IE6 is SSL v.3 which suffers from a fatal vulnerability and supporting it on your servers puts your users at risk.

There’s also no need to support IE6. Now that XP is this-time-we-mean-it officially dead and unsupported, you can't even run a fully patched OS with IE6 on it.

Edit: Via another page on the author's site, I was able to find a publication date of 1 October 2014 for this article. (This just barely gets Mr. Silver off the hook, as the final-nail-in-IE6's-coffin SSLv3 bug POODLE was announced a mere 2 weeks later. That is, if we ignore the "and below" remark. No one has tested their site in IE5.5 in damn near a decade now.) Please, authors: Include the full date with your written works. (Leaving off the year is a shamefully common anti-pattern, as it's the most important part!)
That's what I was thinking. Both are viewing the same satellites, since they're close to each other. The base, since it knows it's stationary, can derive the corrections itself, and figure out where the object is.
java hasnt been bundled with crapware since oracle bought it
This is how you get access to Unsafe:

Field theUnsafe = Unsafe.class.getDeclaredField("theUnsafe");
theUnsafe.setAccessible(true);
Unsafe unsafe = (Unsafe) theUnsafe.get(null);

Reflection, but no stack unwinding.
> The problem with jQuery is not so much jQuery itself, it's the architecture of sites/apps written with many jQuery plugins and no code organization.

Yes, precisely. But you could conceivably call such a ball of mud "boring" because there's nothing cutting edge about it.
A _lot_ of really shitty "web interfaces" which are actively supported/created/updated for enterprise products use java applets. They are universally pretty terrible (as are, in my opinion/experience _most_ user interfaces running on any JVM).

Lots of companies and lots of developers give lots of fucks about Java web UIs. Because Java programmers are commodity programmers. Everyone knows the language and inexperienced programmers can be productive in it without any great risks. (Not to say that there should be any strong association between knowledge and usage of JVM tech and competence, it's just anything that reaches that depth of adoption is bound to have lots of ... mediocrity)
Rich and American? Australia wants you
I didn't read that in the article. Being a technologist means know when NOT to use a technology as much as knowing when to use it. There're way too many developers who read links from HN and try and push the javascript framework of the weak on everyone at their job without fully comprehending the consequences of their decision. That's not being a technologits, that's being stupid.
Tsunamis are not like normal waves. I think they might be more like a really big rise of the tides.
Oh, that wasn't clear at all.
I think the other problem with your idea is that people won't behave as if it's inevitable, because they'll know that there's at least the possibility of having the event postponed or canceled. Worse, the more people who refrain from preparing, the better the odds are of getting a postponement or cancellation.

I like the idea, though. I proposed something similar in another earthquake-related HN thread a while back. If you can't stop or predict natural disasters, make them predictable by causing them yourself!
Designing a SaaS app create account screen
China will give Silicon Valley a run for its money – literally
You're still losing the information about what you had pinned before by unpinning, unless you can dig it out of dpkg.log after the fact. This is almost nothing like having Gemfile.lock and committing it to the project code repo, saving each changeset after every "bundle update".

It is an issue with the package manager, like the python/virtualenv guy suggested, apt can't support keeping parallel versions installed at the same time and linking in the locked version into each separate project that needs a specific version. The conflicting versions do conflict. This is not a problem for bundler, since a given project is not likely to need two separate conflicting versions in a single bundler exec.

There is no "project" concept at all in dpkg. You just have to maintain wholly separate environments for those conflicting dependencies, on separate machines, if they show up in cases where you really need both versions.

Or work with containers instead, which is arguably not really a different solution than already proposed.
The post directly links to the full quote. If the intention was to misquote that would not be the case.

> there is a plan to move from Unsafe to something better than Unsafe

It is this plan and the implications of it that the post is discussing
>People come up and take them as soon as we're more than 200m away.

I don't have this problem where I surf, but here's some thoughts I've had about it...

- Attach a motion alarm (made for purses and such) that will go off and at least attract attention if someone moves it.

- Put a sign on it that says "Do not touch. My buddy is watching this camera." or "Due to recent theft, I have a HIDDEN camera recording this camera."
> Does there not come a point where cutting support for a class of platforms is a good thing?

For example: An article was linked on the HN frontpage a couple days ago about how CP/M reserved names (COM1, etc) still live on in ASP.NET MVC these days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9871014
I think it's possible that people who tend to over-intellectualize, possibly are missing some tenderness in their lives.
Battlefield 4. Laugh if you will, but playing this game (or games like it) against other humans is an incredible mental exercise. There is little downtime and twitch does win the day. Interestingly, I usually only play when I'm too tired to code productively anymore - and playing brings me wide awake.

It's amazing to me when watching others play how they miss cues I can now see. Or how my mind has subconsciously optimized where to aim in a heated firefight depending on the gun I'm using (sometimes sternum, sometimes head - I more notice I'm doing it as opposed to actually doing it).

Plenty of good advice here, but high-speed mind activities should be included in any advice of "staying sharp" (i.e. Battlefield, RTS computer games, iphone brain games I suppose)

(relevant: Starcraft performance factored by age: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....)
Ask HN: Bootstrapping by selling out?
I was wondering if anyone had successfully sold private shares from their current or past startup in order to help fund a new one.

What were some of the lessons you learned from selling those shares? How did it compare to finding other sources of funding?

I am trying to learn more about selling private shares on the secondary markets, but I feel like it's difficult to connect with founders/employees at startups who have capitalized on their success in order to fund their next big idea.