skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inverse of the list is a collection of targets that are "safe" to invade.

Edit: added quotes. Some criminal will certainly, without thinking, decide these are safe targets. And statistically speaking, they'd probably be right more often than not. At the least, it's a great list of targets to avoid if you're planning to loot a neighborhood.
> Varsavsky has lived and built businesses in Madrid since 1995

Which is exactly why I'm puzzled by some of his completely wrong statements about Europe.
This is FUD. Rails actually does have UTF-8 support, and it's on by default, to the point of fixing bugs in IE to make sure everything is UTF-8: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/07/29/Rails-and-Snowmen
> Let me use the the freedom of information act to obtain the tax returns of every person in an area.

This is done in several Scandinavian countries seemingly without much ill effect: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-18-salarie...
In Praise Of Dangerous Toys
I think that "Magic Monitor" oversells this. I expected something much more... magic...
A Chilling Link Explored Between Gunmakers And Video Game Companies
People have a huge amount of trouble when using more than two monitors. I have two video cards and three monitors and I _just want to use all of them as a single desktop_. If I have two monitors, I can use TwinView and everything is great. When I add that third monitor, I have to use it as a separate xscreen, so it has it's own gnome panels and I can't drag a window over to it.

If there is a solution, it's not obvious to me.
Stuff like this pretty much confirms the NRA's fears about gun registration. It didn't immediately result in gun confiscation or anything, but yeah--it's just used for registration today, but tomorrow it's used against you.
Out of hospital CPR has very slim survival chances. Being on a plane will result in at least 30 minutes of CPR even before an ambulance can take over. Chances on surviving that are extremely low. Therefore I can see why the doctor on the plane decided not to perform CPR. I have a medical degree myself btw.
Sounds like the trend is to follow Java (to certain extend, if you ignore the debacle of the old J2EE, Struts, and Tapestry).

ORM? Hibernate or JPA2 can be run anywhere: inside or outside container (i.e.: desktop app, web-app, or simply daemon/service)

DI? Spring or CDI

Unit-test? JUnit or TestNG or others

Mocking? EasyMock, Mockito

Message Queue? Pick one out there

Templating? JSP, JSF(ish), Velocity, FreeMarker.

RESTful? Restlet, Jersey

Everybody plays well with one and the other.
What tool are you guys using to get the notifications?
Completely different. Azure is for servers. Consumers don't use Azure for day-to-day computing. MS is hemorrhaging consumers, most to Apple and Android, but some to desktop GNU/Linux.

That last category might grow as people stop needing MS Office (reminder, we're talking about consumers here, not businesses) and other Windows-only products.

A secure BIOS that is unfriendly to alternative operating systems throws up a low, but possibly significant, barrier that could keep people from moving to Ubuntu and similar.
I could prove it to you, I still should have the credentials for 5+ hellbanned accounts. I will admit I tended to be flamey at times, so I'm not saying it was entirely unfair; but it also made me feel like one-upping HN at times. I think a message along the lines of "your account has been suspended for a week, stop being a dick" would have worked much better than being punished in such a low way, without even knowing for what exactly. But I stuck around and realized there's plenty of great posters here, and looking how long an account lasts before stepping over some invisible line or other has become kind of a game for me. I got used to it ^^ The way I see it, if what you say doesn't make a person with power/privileges feel sore every now and then you're too tame :)
Ask HN: Server performance monitoring
What tools do you use for server performance monitoring?

Probably best to split into two areas:

Self Hosted: Cacti, Nagios, Munin...
Managed: ScoutApp, Newrelic...

Interested in what you use and why?
Although wikipedia is great, I think if you are going to link to a site about Karma, there's alot of better stuff on the internet explaining Karma. I personally prefer the Buddhist view: http://cttbusa.org/buddhism_brief_introduction/chapter2.asp
It just showed me the list that is easily accessible from Facebook, which I already had well maintained.

Guess that's reassuring though.
or, perhaps, they'll make sure a house DOESN'T have a gun before they decide to rob it.
"it comes with it's own ideas about end-user UI, (Rails does not)"

I can remember the Rails HTML helpers with Javascript mixed in and the framework relying upon Prototype.

On the other hand I can't find any example of Django forcing UI stuff onto the developer other than maybe the widget/forms rendering methods.
I'm having trouble getting this to load. Hard to believe you're getting HN-effected this soon with only 3 upvotes.
Yes, indeed they are. But they all share a common language. It's a bit like Germany, Switzerland and Austria or even the german states themselves. We all share a common language so it we've seen the same movies, read the same media, etc. Certainly it's on a larger scale than the german states, but it's on a smaller scale than europe. If I travel 200 km to the east I'm in Poland. My GF comes from a village close to the belarussian border. I can pick the car, drive there in 6 hours or so and while it's Europe and even still EU, I can't even begin to talk to her parents or pretty much any other person in the village. I don't understand a single word they say, I have very little clue about how their life was and still is. If I drive 1000 km to the south I crossed at least 4 borders and heard at least as many languages on the way. So the proper comparison would be to compare texas to mexico or any middle american state.
Aaron and Yehuda are the only two people on both teams, Jose is on Rails Core only. He is also a maintainer of Bundler, as is Terence, who is also on the thread.
So is design. If you keep just practicing, you won't improve (significantly). If you practice, seek for constructive feedback from peers, and keep reading (theory of colors, etc) - you will improve a lot. Just like in any other area. No need to undermine the efforts that takes to become a good designer.
Personally, I rather take my chances with the $FANATICAL_CAUSE and have a system in place where I'm able to get data about my government and to ensure proper behavior on their end.

"Let me use the freedom of information act to obtain the database that maps license plates to names and addresses. Next time you accidentally cut somebody off in traffic, expect him to be waiting at your house when you get home, after visiting my website. Maybe he's already had a little visit with your family while he was waiting."

If this person truly wanted to harm me if I cut them off, then they could already do that. By following me to my house and getting me there. Or how about this scenario. My hubcap falls off while driving and the person behind me pulls over and picks it up. I had a vanity plate that the driver noticed and so they go to your website find my address and then drop off my hubcap to my house. When I get home from work, I'm happily surprised and pop that sucker right back on the car. Both scenarios would be possible because of that list on the website. However, one is much more favorable than the other. It isn't the list that is bad, it is the intentions of the people using it. Those people who are going to use such a list for nefarious uses are most likely going to behave in the same way with or without the list.
The analogy here is just off. DHH might consider just saying "I have good intentions. Rails is my thing. I will ultimately make the choices but do consider feedback."

The reason the analogy is off: when was the last time you went into a restaurant and said, "i'm going to base my work/livelihood on this menu"? Never. Sometimes when I go for a meal I know what I want and I order that. Often I'm looking for an experience and I'll ask, "If the chef were going to die tomorrow what would they eat tonight?". Omakase is a formalized way to see what the chef recommends at that moment in time.

Rails is not the same as me going into a restaurant looking for a great experience at that moment. I might have a mind-blowing meal but I'm not going to base my livelihood on it.

I'm not saying that DHH or Rails are flaky. I am saying that comparing a serious tool for serious work to omakase/the whims of the chef does Rails a disservice.
How I Learned to Rely on My Own Memory
About 35 years ago, someone acquired a list of all persons with a concealed carry license in New York City, and published it in a newspaper or magazine. It created a nine-days wonder and as far as I know has been forgotten ever since.
Not the OP but worked out at United Barbell and they are phenomenal. I am no longer convinced that CrossFit is the right thing for me to keep doing so I stopped it and replaced it by running 5+ miles and doing the big 3, but it definitely is the best thing that ever happened to me fitness wise.
The security at Banks and Gun Stores at least, is significantly higher than that of a personal residence, so, it's NOT that silly.

The main argument is that "outing" people in a collective way, as though they are 'sex offenders'( per the text ) is absurd and offensive.
The 27" Mac monitor is expensive but amazing (and not pivotable). I have found it worth the money. I have one at home. At work I go to a really crappy ViewSonic 24". The smaller size is a slight problem, but what I really dislike is how dark it is. And there are dead pixels.
THANK YOU! Can't believe I missed the task switcher.
Edit: spelling
Not safe. They just don't have a registered gun. They have knives, security systems, gates, locks, police driving by.

And the ones with guns may well be easy to invade. It happened to the mom of that killer last week.

It's not a good argument but the gun fans do make it repeatedly.
Server is back up now.
Padrino is excellent and does not get enough coverage.
If you want to see what the original Elite games were like, check out:

http://www.eliteforever.co.uk/downloads.html

Or this Elite-inspired open source version:

http://www.oolite.org
> own ideas about end-user UI

Really, like what? I don't consider the admin to be end-user and even if it is, its highly customizable.

Django is really more modular and customizable than people give it credit for. Perhaps, because it works one way "out of the box" and you have to look deeper and learn it to have it work some other way.
It isnt as though they were upset that their divorce attorney couldnt answer complex questions about patent law. Free weights should not be considered a niche for a personal trainer in a gym. Even just walking around a gym should show you that primarily you have 3 types of equipment, cardio, weight machines, and free weights, so it isnt as though there is simply too much to learn and understand for somebody whose job it is to be knowledgeable.

The issue with many personal trainers (and people you discuss fitness with in general) is that, for the most part, if your diet is good, doing pretty much anything in the gym will get you results. Many trainers have desirable figures and they know it and they constantly have people asking them for advice in their private lives and are paid to give it at their jobs. This causes many to simply assume that what they did is the "correct" way to workout when the truth is that had they dont most any routine with that devotion for many years, they would have gotten similar results.

This is much more similar to investing in the sense that the experts often give worse recommendations than you could find yourself with a few hours research. Im sorry this is too anecdotal for you, but if you walk into most gyms, talk to most people who have a clue about training, etc, then this is what you hear; people simply arent properly educated on personal fitness even when that is their job
No, actually, I hadn't; I'm nominally on vacation.

What I'm about to say is intellectually sloppy. But Varsavsky's facts are not terribly important. His point about German startups was true at one time, and is no longer true, but his larger point about legal requirements for the workplace being strict in Europe and essentially non-existent in America is true. His contrast of personal liability for entrepreneurs in Europe with the essential absence of any such liability in America is true.

His post is not directed towards Europeans. It is directed towards American entrepreneurs who are looking at Europe - and could come to Europe with vastly incorrect assumptions about what it means to start and run a business here.

Along the way, sure, he makes some pretty generalized points about business in Europe that may be less than accurate. The "no new valuable businesses" point is a little off and to my mind not even the point. But what he is actually saying is that, should you want to start a startup in Europe as an American, here are some things you should know in advance, and here are some reasons you might want to do it despite a risk profile that is entirely different.

The diversity of Europe doesn't even matter in this context, except as a reason Americans might like to live here.

And OP's point that the income diversity between Scandinavia and Russia is really beside the point. The point is that the European middle class is healthier than the American middle class, and if you can steer around the problem that they speak fifty different languages, you've actually got a bigger market for consumer goods and services here than in the States - and that's a weird and unusual thought that I, personally, found quite inspiring.
A great book on this topic is How to Live Dangerously: Why we should all stop worrying, and start living. It inspired an Insight talk that I gave: http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/07/05/ignite-boulder-11/
>it might be nice to know if your neighbor's owned guns

I'm sure it's nice to know for robbers as well if they knew you didn't have one. The info was always available but now the ones who don't make an honest living know this.
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At the point one insists on Linux the desktop for an average user, the complexity argument has left the barn. This isn't meant as snark.

Linux lacks a grandmother friendly user support interface. When something goes wrong, a person of average familiarity with Linux is fucked. Arguments about how often operating systems present such problems are for another debate.

The issue of hardware, is just that, an issue of hardware. A lack of systems upon which it is easy to boot Linux is due to the fit between hardware manufacturer's and the market. At least the situation is better than Android on an iPhone.
The point of hell-banning would be to make the user leave the community without him noticing that he was banned, because if he does notice, all he has to do would be to create a new account. This works by not showing his comments to others, which in return means that the user will not get any conversations going or any upvotes and pretty soon he'll start thinking that the others are ignoring him completely, which is in general a good incentive for someone to leave a community.

The problem with hell-banning is that for users that post a lot of comments, they'll soon realize that they are hell-banned and trolls (in particular) can only be stopped if they are genuinely ignored.

For this reason, if you want to stop trolls, slow-banning could be a good alternative by making usage of the site unpleasant. This way they can still interact with others, but it will be painful for them to do so.

I agree that these methods are passive-aggressive and shouldn't be used on non-trolls, even if such people do not comply with the community's guidelines. The problem with this site is that user accounts do not have emails attached ... as a much more effective method for making most users behave according to guidelines would be to send them a warning.
who, honestly, still wears a watch?

Well, there's always aesthetics/fashion. I wear a (very attractive, IMHO) self-winding watch. As someone else has mentioned, it's actually really convenient compared to getting my phone out of my pocket, but mostly I like the way it looks -- I guess it's a form of functional jewelry.

I think watches are also status markers. Witness the wide variety of vastly overpriced -- for the actual functionality you get -- watches on the market. A 100$ watch probably performs 99.999% as well as a 10000$ watch, but people will buy the latter, because of the Cartier label or whatnot.

I'd love to say that I'm immune from that, but I'm not. A nice watch makes me feel subtly more powerful. Manly. Strong. In control. Etc... I feel a little awkward without it. This is difficult to explain and may be generational.
The downside is you get embarrassed when someone makes a map. That's the NRA fear. (Edit: that's WHAT the NRA fear)

Similar downside for...driver's licenses, passports, political contributions, subscriptions to magazines or any other database where it is useful to have records of who does what.
I agree, and it seems it is planned for version 0.3 http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/geary/wiki/Geary_roadmap
For what it's worth, I am having zero trouble getting this to load. The page is fast even, and remains fast in Incognito and after clearing cache.
Basically, here's the deal: this is a change that every member of Rails core (and others with commit, like me) who is not an employee of 37 Signals disagrees with, as well as the entire maintenance team of Bundler. Every single one. And DHH's response is that we all 'haven't really paid much attention to how things are run on a day-to-day basis.'

This change 'breaks every single new Rails app on Heroku that uses rbenv', in the words of Heroku's Ruby platform lead. It is not a trivial change. This is David going against the wishes of every other maintainer of every other piece of software Rails works with, as well as other Rails maintainers, and then painting their comments as 'nerd rage' and 'organizational failures.'

Ugh.
Have you ever been to Madrid? They're about as far away from the epicenter of Europe as you can get and still be in the Union - and not at all Central European. A lot of the points he made are very, very Spanish.

But as I just posted upthread, as a contrast between the "general look and feel" of Europe vs. the US, I thought his post was bang on.

Of course, I'm also an American in Europe - married to a Hungarian for 23 years. So take me with a grain of salt, I guess.
My point is that these types of posts are always upvoted on HN because they latch onto the latest general sentiments of the community. They are intellectually lazy posts that are not backed by anything besides some analogy the author has drawn to prove a point. As someone with a vested interest in design and UX, it pains me to see people upvote this.
Pick's theorem - computing the area of an integer vertex polygon
"By product, Luxury watches remains the largest segment in the global watches market. Mass-priced watches represents the fastest growing watches segment, waxing at a CAGR of about 2.6% over the analysis period."

breakdown being:

"Mass-Priced Watches (Under $50), Middle-Priced Watches ($50-$299), Upper-Priced Watches ($300 - $999), and Luxury Watches ($1000 - $5000)."

Somehow I don't see Apple making a watch that's either mass-priced (<$50) or Luxury (>$1,000).

For them to have a sufficient umbrella and make high-end profits (that they are used to) they'd have to be in the "Middle-priced watches" which, at least according to that article, is neither a big pie nor growing.

Then again, Apple's strategy is to disrupt markets by creating new segments, so my guess is if they do release a "watch" (whatever form that takes) it won't fit into one of those buckets above. They'll create their own.
Apparently somebody has bigger cajones.

@sbartholomew: @dhh the the Rails community has it relatively easy: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414106 … :-)
I think it'd be funny if one day they even start prescribing the production environment via a Vagrant box.
DHH has long held that Rails meets his (Basecamp's) needs first, so the whims of the chef hold true. Implicit in this post was the idea that it's not the only serious tool for serious work, and if you don't like the chef's choices, you're better served in a different restaurant than complaining about the menu in this one.

Even if you've staked your career on Rails, it's important to realize it's your choice, but his framework.
I agree that it removes some complexity there, but it also introduces some ugliness for example: https://live.gnome.org/Vala/FAQ#Why_can.27t_I_chain_up_to_ba...

In fact, Jurg, the creator of Vala agrees on that enough that he created Dova: https://live.gnome.org/Dova it's no longer actively maintained, but it stands to illustrate the point.
And you'd be right. But you'd also have admit that Americans tend to do that to themselves. "The American Way" and whatnot; less bright people even saying "Unamerican" as if that was a thing. Those aren't labels others gave you, Americans proudly confess them. And then there is this ever-present flag and/or red-white-blue. From far away those similiarities seem to kinda outweigh the differences, it's just real hard to look past that, it being everywhere and all the time.
Actually, the OP provided some context that helped. It's been a few years since I used Linux as a desktop - so I had forgotten all the x11 conf horrors. I appreciated the lead-in.
I think it's pedantic to confuse 'americans' with everyone from north/south america.
#2 isn't a likely example simply because life doesn't work out that way. The people who steal a gun is usually from someone they know.

#3 is possible but, with what has happened so far, conservative bosses have threatened to decline their workforce if Obama won the election. Nothing has been shown to the opposite.
Ask HN: Why technical recruiters mostly does not have a technical background
Hello, in my country most of technical recruiters are BA graduates. To test how interviews goes I have applied a few of them and went to interview. Interviews usually goes like that, rate your X programming language knowledge from 0 to 10 and they write down what you say. They have very shallow knowledge (mostly just the name of technology) about technologies and they cannot question you to verify your rating is realistic or not.
I am working at a SW House and we are nearly 1000 developers here so there are always a few interviews nearly every week. Sometimes I ask managers to join interviews to ask technical questions and gave feedback about the guy's technical knowledge. They hired candidates which I gave positive feedback and also candidates which I gave negative feedback. After six months when I talked with managers they were very pleased about the performance of the guys which I gave positive feedback.
So I decided to leave from my company to found a recruitment agency. I think that developers can understand developers better so I can find right candidate better than a BA graduate.
What do you think ?
I think the analogy broke down somewhere in the upscale restaurant analogy, but let's continue with food joints.

In a town where you have only 1 big cafeteria (Rails), a pizza joint (Sinatra) and a few tiny snack stands, if you have friends, you'd probably have to get with the gang and head to the cafeteria for lunch. Now when the head cook decides to not offer disposable utensils anymore because of environmental concerns, but then the large Jewish community complaints about the bowls aren't kosher, then the head cook comes out and post a notice on the entrance that says, "If you can't eat out of the bowls I cleaned, get out of my cafeteria." Ok never mind, analogies can only work up to a point, it's almost 2013 and the world didn't end, chill out Rubyists...
Where to start a company: Berlin vs London
Carmivore becomes Codeable, gets a new landing page (launching in January)