skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Munich is neither bad nor small but still I can imagine
that finding friends there is hard: in Munich you find
those networks and circles which exist for decades and over
generations. The people are nice but the fluctuation is too
small

Compared to the US, you find decades old networks and circles nearly in every part/city of Europe (at least in Germany). This is just a result of a quite immobile society until recently. In Munich, fluctuation among young professionals (20-40) is actually pretty high, or at least higher as you describe: Munich is one of Germany's economic powerhouses with lots of German graduates and professionals from the rest of Europe moving to.

the city is not dynamic, night-life is quite limited, you
would need 10 years to get into the society and still some
parts would not welcome you.

I don't really know what you want to imply here: how do you define dynamic? And what should it mean in this context? Munich might not be as dynamic as London/NYC/SF/Berlin/whatever, but calling it not dynamic doesn't do it justice.

The rest of your statement is also very prejudiced: it does not take you 10 years to get into the society, and that some parts of every society are not open to foreigners is neither unique to Munich, nor to Germany or Europe.

Regarding Munich night-life: it is definitely not comparable to Berlin night-life, but still it is quite vibrant. There are two of Germany's biggest universities in Munich, and roughly >110k students in the city. In summer time the whole city is out drinking/eating in one of the millions of beer gardens where it is quite common to sit with total strangers at the same table.

=> change quickly to a real capital

Depending on your field, Munich sometimes is THE place to go/work in Germany: i.e. you won't find a lot of engineering positions in Berlin, but lots of in Munich (or generally speaking in southern Germany; but then Munich most probably is the most open/international city there).
This app never had any users outside the media bubble...seems like a soft landing acqui-hire.
I'm not sure which side I'm on really. There are both good jokes there and some really mean episodes that are laughing about really nasty behaviour.

But to see how depressing some of the scenes actually are, search for "big bang theory without laugh track" on youtube. Once you listen to it like to a real situation... it's just terrible.
I don't understand. I quit smoking a few months ago. I can't imagine any other way than firmly attempting to never smoke another cigarette any more, ever.

Now that particular resolution might not be 100% successful. Maybe I will succumb to another cigarette some day. But there's a difference between setting a certain goal, and what counts as succeeding at it.

If I tell myself, I can quit smoking but I'm allowed to smoke a cigarette every now and then, that is setting myself up for failure. I know because that's how I failed previous attempts. Even a single cigarette for me re-triggers the physical addiction, and will make the 2-3 weeks after that extra hard to control and not relapse. That occasional single cigarette would just be making it extra hard on myself to follow through, and the extra willpower needed when I allow myself that, is not worth the supposed pleasure of that one smoke.

(btw I am aware that there also exist people who can actually manage to quit but smoke one cigarette every 2-3 months or so. makes me wonder whether they ever were really addicted in the first place, but that's another question, plus I'm not here to judge anybody. What I do know is, that I am not one of those people)

So I resolve myself to the goal of "no cigarettes anymore, ever", in order to achieve a 99.9% cigarette-free life. But I am sincerely aiming for that 100%, because I'm a bit fed up with the whole addiction thing, experienced it, seen it, learned from it, I'd like to see it fade away to memoryland.

Maybe though my overcoming nicotine addiction is the only thing that is so important to me that I'll allow myself to say "never again". I wouldn't say this about not eating at my desk, for instance, it's too small a thing to make such a big claim about.
Wikipedia would be the very last place I'd go to verify that a made-up-sounding scientific discipline is real. Any crank worth his salt has authored twenty separate Wikipedia entries before he gets press like this.
Because now you can make people's iPads slow, too :)
Technically they could have, but do they have any history of doing that? (edit: didn't realise they released 8.1, thought it was SP1. I guess I partially retract how stupid I think the sentence is)

The sentence would have made a bit of sense if they had gone back to vista style naming, and called it windows <name> or something. But the last 2 releases have been called 7 and 8, is 9 really distancing itself from 8?
if you jack the minHueCols param up to 4096 or 8192, it does much better in many cases of gradients but also much slower. it's certainly not a complete hands-off quantizer. the best results i've found for 0-config quantizarion is Wu's Color Quantizer v2 [1] implementation [2]

[1] http://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~xwu/cq.c

[2] http://nquant.codeplex.com/
Anyone selling dogecoin for Paypal is stupid, those tranactions can easily be reversed.

>you can use cpuminer to create some yourself.

Depends on how many you want, the dogecoin difficulty has really gone through the roof lately, and you are much much better off with a GPU. The Kh/s rating on most GPUs is much better.

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

www.coinwarz.com/calculators/dogecoin-mining-calculator/

The best Corei5 is going to get you about 1358 doge a day, with sounds like a lot, but it is a tiny number, 41 cents. Plus, the mining calculators are way way off. They always overestimate for me.
I believe they should get rid of different versions and just make one. That'd also be great when ordering custom laptops where some features somehow depend on which version of windows you pick (i.e. 'Fresh start' on Sony).
It seems like they killed you with kindness. My grandma likes to play the saint and guilt me into doing her bidding to this day, I've become allergic to this.
Windows 8.2 Professional™ Media™ Home™ Premium™ Edition™ Enterprise™ Ultimate™
You can click the "scroll down to explore" arrow.
There's an odd typo in this post: "Ma##achusetts Institute of Technology". Or is that some sort of weird inside joke?
Every mass-media depiction of an activity or group will be simultaneously exaggerated and incomplete. In particular, TV comedies will emphasize anything that can make you laugh. They'll portray as idiots and make fun of: nerds, geeks, musicians, politicians, assistants, policemen, scientists, managers, presidents, models, spies, secretaries, firemen, astronauts, unemployed, lawyers, extraterrestrials, students, depressed, celebrities, immigrants, writers, and even the dead ones if need be.
Problem is, almost no user will ever actually READ any message. They'll just click "OK".
More than 25% of WordPress installs are 3.0 running on PHP 5.2
The best way I found to do this for python is by using Tornado,you have an excellent websocket implementation baked in and a scheduler within the webserver itself so its simple to poll for changes and update only when necessary,or interleave with a call back if you want "true" real time. Plug in a front end with angular/knockout etc,pass around json objects and you are good.

As far as meteor/node goes,having the same language on the server client is great. Having javascript as that language is not so great. Web apps are generally a front end to something bigger and I never want to do any serious data wrangling in javascript if I can avoid it.
No, that's the brilliance of artificial intelligence, don't you know?

> artificial intelligence to be able to a##ess what’s going on in their environment.
>wrote his first computer program in 1963 aged 15, went on to study at the Ma##achusetts Institute of Technology

Scunthorpe bug in the CMS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
You’re no snowflake
Dropout here also, why don't you send me an email and we can talk about what I've done in the past to build a portfolio and get some credibility.

faisal.abid@gmail.com
I'm surprised I don't see more semicolons on HN, given the demographics.
It's a damn TV show, not a documentary. If you don't put your brain into low power mode and stop pondering about stuff, you won't enjoy it. It's a sequence of light jokes and a very loose story-line.

Another example that comes to mind: I like SciFi. If I'd analyse every movie for scientific credibility, I'd have a horrible time and would hate the genre. Just put your brain in error correction mode and switch on your creativity and you'll have a great time.

And if you don't like it, watch documentaries.
As kraken.io, we can safely say that this is indeed an excellent program, and it makes up part of our lossy PNG optimization stack.
If you go to what.cd in your browser right now, you get a CloudFlare page stating that what.cd is not responding.
I've started hitting some Ghost based sites from HN links and I like the public facing side of it a lot. As other people have said I think I'll stick with Jekyll
Startups Behaving Badly, Does Anyone Care?
i didn't see it and still can't maybe i am being blind or selectively filtering it without realising... :/

> low level libraries like crash reporters which can not be platform independent.

> Or libraries that rely on platform specifics, like UIKit on iOS.

this is actually not true and i can quite comfortably demonstrate this and have worked in multiple code bases that do such things across all the major platforms, including games consoles...

these pieces are the unavoidable platform dependent bits and can be conditionally compiled accordingly - they are however usually quite small, and also something which a library can not do

this is imo far and way the biggest strength of source code inclusing and precisely what i refer to by 'you can run on every current platform and even ones that don't exist yet'

even 'cross-platform' APIs like OpenGL necessitate this because they make mistakes, or have ES flavour on mobile with breaking changes vs. Desktop OpenGL.

EDIT:
"> In the years past, for example, I saw issues related to a specific linker bug that resulted in improper relocation of Mach-O symbols during final linking of the executable, and crashes that thus only occurred in the specific user's application, and could only be reproduced with a specific set of linker input."

ah i guess you mean this. in which case how does a library avoid this? the linker inputs are usually roughly equivalent to libraries... the compiler generated a bad object file consistently? I'll agree that compiler and linker bugs exist but they are the exception and not the case - that effects source code and not the library is indeed an advantage of a pre-compiled library. I consider it vanishingly unimportant against being able to work across /all platforms/.
Ken and Ben Lerer Fund 185 Tech Companies—and Counting
Chrome has "Save as PDF" in its print dialog, does the page offer something better than that?
Think of it this way: possessive pronouns don't take an apostrophe - my, your, his, her, their, its.
Story sharing time!

I run a local user group that educates developers on Google's technologies that while proudly independent from Google, has a great working relationship with their developer relations teams.

Back in March of 2012 (that's almost two years ago) I first brought to the attention of the Chrome developer relations team an extension called Bookmark Sentry that essentially contained a trojan that hijacks links to serve up spam ads. You can read more about it here: http://stopmalvertising.com/malvertisements/beware-of-the-go...

What I found troubling was the response back. I received an official response that it was within compliance of Chrome App Store policies. Specifically I was told:

"Ad injections are not in violation of the Chrome Web Store program policies. The policy requires that ads must be presented in the context of the extension or, when present within another page, ads must be outside the page's normal flow and clearly state which extension they are bundled with. We believe that ads are a legitimate way to monetize, but that they should be a known cost to the extension user."

I certainly hope since then they've changed their policy on this issue and are actively policing and enforcing against spyware and malware.

Chrome App extensions can access extremely sensitive data such as webforms with credit card, contact details, passwords and more and in the wrong hands can do untold damage.
I don't know about Django but rails has the idea of "live controllers".

Sure it uses polling but didn't you watch DHH's railsconf presentation? They have 5-6 workers and a single redis server which sustains 100k+ reqs per minute.

It also only took DHH 4 hours to convert the entire basecamp project to be live (ie. live updating comments as it comes in).

Sure it's not really live since the polling is only happening every few seconds but who cares? Even for most chat systems it's completely reasonable to do polling, most certainly if it's 1:1 chat.

Also look at Disqus. They are mostly all django, they even use postgres with a schema. Their "real time comment system pusher" was written in Go in a week with almost no prior knowledge to Go. I see nothing wrong with that and IMO it's exactly what we should be doing.

Use Django/Rails for the bulk of your app, CRUD interfaces, etc. and then create optimized services with Go or some other language for real-time aspects.

[*] Everything I mentioned is documented online through talks, engineering blogs, etc..
Some community colleges allow you to take placement tests (which you would likely breeze through) in lieu of a GED or high school diploma. Even if you only end up taking a few classes, you'll still have better luck in the job market as a college dropout than as a high school dropout. Better yet, you may actually enjoy college. No one will care that you dropped out of high school if you have a 4-year degree.

If you decide not to continue with your education, your best bet is to pick up whatever work you can to build a portfolio. Once you have a portfolio, you'll be better off trying to get an actual job, as freelancing (at least at the bottom end) is generally miserable.
It has always been thus.
what.cd started using CloudFlare for the site, as was stated in the blog post regarding the DDoS attacks.

[liliff@ichigo ~]$ dig ns what.cd +short

walt.ns.cloudflare.com.

leah.ns.cloudflare.com.
The best non-Code development that I ever read was the Design of Everyday Things.

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...

It was not written with software in mind, but the core respect for the user translates enormously well. If you can't tell whether you should push or pull a door to open it, it's the fault of the door designer, not the door opener. This translates very deeply into interface (user or technical) design.
I can see your points, but this is EXACTLY how Nokia and RIM went down the drain.
They both thought that as long as we just churn out new iterations of the same thing, it'll keep people on.
Look how that went...
A single account holds bitcoin for a group of people, and keeps track of individual balances internally. Externally, all the network sees are deposits and withdrawls.
This page has some comparison examples:

http://bugfixer.endel.me/2012/09/23/comparison-between-png-q...
Centossa – The Apple II That Never Was
I'll likely never use Ghost, whatwith already having put time into a nominal Wordpress site and using Jekyll or Middleman for everything else...but I hope it succeeds. The fact that it's spreading Markdown as the default writing syntax to people who were halfway dependent on turnkey Wordpress solutions and used only WYSIWYG...to me, that's a win overall for digital literacy.
This is what the UN was founded for, to handle disputes of territory in a civilized way.

Even the league of nations has managed to do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85land_Islands#History
Metro would have worked if MS hadn't tried to pull a Jobs with the windows store. And left the old start menu of course.
Check out http://wintersmith.io/ if you're into static site generators. Not affiliated, just a fan.
I hear your pain. I once had to spend quite a while learning Nagios just to do some simple things. However, Nagios does have the capability do handle the very simple case you are describing. You have hosts [1] and you have services [2] that run on hosts. The relationships are many to many: some hosts run some services, while others run others, or none at all. When telling Nagios about all this, you simply define how to find a host, how to find a service, and finally which hosts to check for which service. This is logical and straightforward in my mind.

Now, the problem is that to get to the links I cited, I had to click through 5 links, and I knew exactly what I was searching for. Nagios's biggest problem is that their documentation looks archaic. Updating that would give the project so much more appeal.

[1] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/4/en/hostcheck...

[2] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/4/en/servicech...
Businesses don't want rapid change, which is why taking risks every-other release is fine- businesses aren't going to upgrade the OS every four years anyway.
> the geeks really come across to me as too overly stereotypical to be relatable

Apparently we know very different geeks, then :-)
I use http://www.configserver.com/.

I love it as it blocks any crap that tries to hack in automatically at iptables level.

Judging by logs I see about 2x-3x more break-in attempts to misc system services.
and 19/1/2014 is the 40th year anniversary of the Battle Of Paracel Islands between China and the then Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Paracel_Islands
Changed the theme to CleanPress. Hope it resolves the issue
Inside Tony Hsieh’s Quiet Plan to Bankroll Hardware Startups
Can Cabot handle "multihomed" services?

I have services running remotely, that are accessible through a variety of communication methods (VPNs, SSH tunnels, 3G modems, and occasionally just straight up IP!) and it's been awhile, but when I set up nagios, it seemed there was no way to tell it: "Alert if this host is not reachable in any of these 50 ways" - it monitors all 50, and alerts me whenever each one of them changes state (which is quite often).

What I want to say is: Here are all the ways I can reach server "pinky", I want a warning if there are less than 3 ways for more than an hour, and an alert if non of the way works for more than 3 minutes.

Can cabot do that?

(for that matter, can any other monitor do that?)
The genetic code and the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics.
... I really want to like Sony. They seem to have the best chance of bringing Apple-style quality to more open software-platforms.

But seriously, this is crap (at least on Firefox). It's slow and choppy and it has a (however brief) unskippable intro. Pretty, but broken.
I'm writing from a writer's perspective, not a developer's perspective. Which is not to say that there isn't value to what you're saying, but what I'm looking for is a good way to write quickly, not a code editor that also handles Markdown.

I want to convince the writers I edit on a daily basis to use Markdown because of its clear benefits over WYSIWYG. Sublime Text I'm sure is great and I've heard great things about it, but I'm going to have a far harder time selling the journalists I work with on that than I am with something like Mou or iA Writer.

WordPress' big weakness, IMHO, is that it has an editor which is not built for writing longer pieces and is poorly suited for editing. (Tumblr's big weakness is that it supports Markdown, but without frills.) That in my opinion is a huge issue—the words are basically the most important part of the editing process, and it means that in editing environments we're still stuck using Word or third-party tools like Editorially. What I see with Ghost is a real honest-to-God effort to focus on the editing tools first. We need more of that. It's where we spend most of our time on our blogging platforms. Why downplay that and instead put all of our energy into these inefficient WYSIWYG ContentEditable editors that nobody really, truly likes?

Not everyone who reads HN is a developer.
Show HN: Borderless-Gaming - An Open Source Fullscreen Alternative on GitHub
Despite some of the earlier marketing, describing how much simpler the editions became, it's still a cluster-mess.

For example read about problems upgrading to 8.1 for various editions: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/why-can-t-find-.... Upgrading to a "service pack" in previous versions of Windows never seemed this complicated.
I've spent 3 years making Nagios 'work'. I've had to add all the things Nagios didn't have, like inventory management, graphing, combining graphs, trend detection, service discovery, etc. I also had to make it scale. This also involved writing plugins in C to conserve memory since plugs are run through forking processes. The 'community' plugins are mostly really terrible. Scaling it also running things outside of the Nagios scheduler with another script and feeding the results back to Nagios. This allowed me to collect data for 120k parameters in 5 minutes from a single monitoring server. Anyway, this is just a long way of saying writing your own thing is probably not that bad an idea compared to having to learn Nagios and then trying to hack it into the shape of an enterprise monitoring system.
Your solution is at least as ugly as the one mentioned in the article.

The problem is that void can't be used as a regular type identifier.

In a lot of langages (like Python, Haskell, F#, ...) there is a regular type for void. This type is often implemented as such :

sealed struct Void {
}

Then you can define Action<...> just as Func<Void, ...>.

As the compiler is smart enough to see there is only one kind of Void value, it can be entierly removed from the generated code and thus doesn't make your code slower.
I think if someone's willing to pay you to spend most of your 8 hour workday driving around then more fool them (unless you hate driving). But spending your own time on a commute is a waste.
> Some of the comments are amusing, mostly unintentionally.

> Vinegar is set to become the non-alcoholic drink of choice,

brb guise, investing in vinegar.
Major new releases are hardly inappropriate. There's still a lot of change in computers. Recall XP had no wireless support until SP2, and it hasn't been until Win7 or so that SSD's have been handled optimally (TRIM and so forth)
Why Men Love Breasts-- It's Science
We all knw that me love big breast,find out Why Men Love Breasts here -- It's Science!.
> Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machine

Ghost itself is produced by a nonprofit organization. Though I suppose the surrounding ecosystem may eventually be just as commercial as that of Wordpress, the main Ghost developers have the explicit goal of not getting corrupted by money.
No I would not like it.
Show HN: Custodian. Test a wide range of services remotely across a network.
I compared them recently for a project where I needed to make some PNGs smaller, and settled on pngng, which, in my informal testing, seemed to produce better results.
Two questions:

1. How do you get 40 million cards in a day from scraping RAM? Wouldn't it be limited to live transactions? 40m seems like a huge number of transactions for one day. An average ticket of $50 would make it a 2 billion dollar day.

2. Why does the card data need to be decrypted on the POS system? Why can't it be sent to a central service and decrypted there and an authorization code is sent back?
Home Automation with DIY IFTTT Trigger | Open Electronics
Mobile and Web Digest (January 2014)
Yeah, only Lisp is beautiful. ;)